Taxon: Sparganium erectum L.

A declared noxious weed by USDA-APHIS.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

FLª, MAª, NCª, OKª, SCª, TXª.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• branched bur-reed   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• exotic bur-reed   (Source: State Noxweed Seed ) – English
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Ill Chin Mat Med, as S. ramosum)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ FWeed)
  

Distributional range:

      Native:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia

References:

• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Brickell, C., ed. 1997. The American Horticultural Society. Encyclopaedia of garden plants. (Ency GardPl)
• Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection - on-line document. (FL AquaNoxweed)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China) [= S. stoloniferum].
• Cook, C. D. K. et al. 1986. A monographic study of the genus Sparganium. Bot. Helv.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Reed, C. F. 1977. Economically important foreign weeds: potential problems in the United States. (Econ FWeed)
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sparganium erectum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sparganium erectum. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Sparganium chlorocarpum Rydb.
  
• (=) Sparganium polyedrum (Asch. & Graebn.) Juz.
  
• (=) Sparganium ramosum Huds.
  

Check other databases for Sparganium erectum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?316417 (09 February 2010)

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