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Taxon: Typha angustifolia L.

Genus: Typha
Family: Typhaceae tribe: Typheae.
Nomen number: 40799
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:971. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 07-Nov-1985 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994
No species priority site assigned.
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • cattail   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  • lesser bulrush   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • lesser reed-mace   (Source: Econ Bot 29:9. 1975) – English
  • nail-rod   (Source: Econ Bot 29:9. 1975) – English
  • narrow-leaf cattail   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • small reed-mace   (Source: Econ Bot 29:9. 1975) – English
  • tabua-estreita   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • anea   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • espadaña   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan [n.e.]; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan
    Mongolia: Mongolia
    China: China [n.]
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
    East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
    Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy; Romania
    Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain
  • NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
    Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
    Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba, Saskatchewan
    Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
    North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma [n.w.], South Dakota, Wisconsin
    Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Colorado, Wyoming
    Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Kentucky [n.], Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia

      Naturalized:
  • naturalized elsewhere in North America

References:

  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1975. Aquatic and wetland plants of southwestern United States, 2 vol. (Aquat SW US)
  • Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta. (F EthiopCuf)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Godfrey, R. K. & J. W. Wooten. 1979–1981. Aquatic and wetland plants of southeastern United States, 2 vol. (Aquat SE US)
  • Hess, H. E. et al. 1976. Flora der Schweiz, ed. 2. (F Switz)
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed) [including T. domingensis].
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Morton, J. F. 1975. Cattails (Typha spp.) - weed problem or potential crop?. Econ. Bot. 29:9.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana. (F Males)
  • Steward, A. N. 1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. (F LowYangtze)
  • Wetter, M. A. et al. WISFLORA: Wisconsin vascular plant species - on-line resource. (F Wisconsin)
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Check other databases for Typha angustifolia L.:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • 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:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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