Curly Wurly Grass - Garden Work

Graceful Grasses® Curly Wurly Corkscrew Rush (Juncus effusus ‘Curly Wurly’) is grown for its exciting foliage. This easy-care perennial has blue-green, tightly curled blades. This rush flowers in the spring and summer, although the white blooms are not significant.

Curly Wurly Corkscrew Rush is an open herbaceous perennial grass with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage. In the order of shortest to tallest, these are: Curly Wurly, Big Twister, Spiralis, and Quartz Creek. Appearance-wise, they are almost identical.

curly wurly grass, Despite being deemed invasive in some areas, this rhizomatous plant actually aids in controlling and mitigating soil erosion. Curly Wurly Corkscrew Rush, Aptly named, this unique rush has glossy green, pencil-thin stems that spiral outward from the clump in all directions. A great deer.