Scientific Name: Luzula sylvatica
Common Name: greater woodrush
Family Name: Juncaceae
Origin: South Asia / India
Hardiness Zone: Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C)
Plant Type: Ground cover, Poales (grass-like)
Mature Size: 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width)
Habit: Arching
Form: Oval - horizontal
Texture: Fine
Landscape Uses: Cut flower or foliage, Ground cover, Perennial border, Wetland - bogs, Woodland margin
Exposure: Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Bog
Leaves: Simple, Grass-like, Basal, Linear, Serrulate
Flowers: Panicle, Brown, Jun
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Leaves linear, 10-30cm long x 1-2cm wide, margins with scattered white hair-like filaments; florets brownish, very small, in open panicles.