Habitat: Poverty rush grows on freshwater sites that have saturated soil conditions during the winter and dry conditions during the summer. It is common in disturbed areas with seeps and springs, such as prairies, meadows, shaded roads, and ditches.
Wildlife: Some upland gamebirds and granivorous songbirds feed on the seeds of poverty rush. In addition, poverty rush is used as material for nest construction, and as cover for foraging animals.
Notes: Useful as a groundcover, or water plant in a rain garden due to its ability to grow in compacted and saturated soils. Poverty rush can be used in the bottom of constructed bioswales as a groudlayer. It is also used in the scrub shrub layer as a ground cover in constructed wetlands
Earth Sangha Inventory
Founded in 1997, the Earth Sangha is a nonprofit public charity based in the Washington, DC, region. The Wild Plant Nursery is the most comprehensive source of local-ecotype, native plants in the Washington DC region, and the region’s only facility dedicated exclusively to this type of propagation. “Local-ecotype” plants are propagated from local, wild, naturally-occurring populations and are well-adapted to local conditions and for wildlife species that depend on the local forms, such as pollinators. Inventory is updated on a weekly basis so number may not be accurate.
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