Taxon: Arundo donax L.

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:

NV*, TX*.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Link to species profile at

See also subordinate taxa:

• Arundo donax var. versicolor (no accessions)

Common names:

• giant-reed   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Spanish-reed   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• spaanse-riet   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• canne de Provence   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• grand roseau   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Pfahlrohr   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• cana-do-brejo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cana-do-reino   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• canno-do-reino   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• capim-plumoso   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• caña común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• caña de Castilla   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Fuels: potential as biomass for energy generation   (fide N. El Bassam 1998)
  
• Materials: cane; fiber   (for making baskets, musical instrument reeds (oboes, D. Farr, p.c.), & other articles fide F Eur; F NAmer; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec; Weeds SAfr 2001)
  

More:

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan
  Indo-China: Indochina; Myanmar
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym [s.]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Cape Verde; Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Africa
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Europe [s.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Mexico
  United States [w.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  South America [s.]

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
• Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan. (Grass BCIP)
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. (F Ceylon)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Editorial Committee of the Flora of Taiwan. 1993–. Flora of Taiwan, 2nd ed. (F Taiwan ed2)
• El Bassam, N. 1998. Energy plant species. 150–155.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Henderson, L. 2001. Alien weeds and invasive plants: a complete guide to declared weeds and invaders in South Africa. Plant Protection Research Institute, Handbook 12. (Weeds SAfr 2001)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Koyama, T. 1987. Grasses of Japan and its neighboring regions. (Grass Japan)
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
• Lazarides, M. 1980. The tropical grasses of Southeast Asia. (Grass SEAs)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3. (F Saudi ed3)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India. (Grass NE India)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. (Grass USSR)
• USDA National Agricultural Library. National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Arundo donax.

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

Check other databases for Arundo donax L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• 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:

• Forestry Images: Images of invasive weeds from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruit and seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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