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Cattails
Typha
Typha /ˈtaɪfə/ is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. These plants have many common names, in British English as bulrush, or reedmace, in American English as cattail, punks, or corn dog grass, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada as bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand as raupō. Other taxa of plants may be known as bulrush, including some sedges in Scirpus and related genera.
50 branches of this genus, most-observed first
broadleaf cattail
speciesTypha latifolia
narrow-leaved cattail
speciesTypha angustifolia
southern cattail
speciesTypha domingensis
Oriental Cattail
speciesTypha orientalis
Cape Bulrush
speciesTypha capensis
hybrid cattail
hybridTypha × glauca
Graceful Cattail
speciesTypha laxmannii
Dwarf Cattail
speciesTypha minima
Shuttleworth's Cattail
speciesTypha shuttleworthii
Typha incana
speciesTypha incana
Typha linnaei
speciesTypha linnaei
Typha × provincialis
hybridTypha × provincialis
Typha elephantina
speciesTypha elephantina
Typha krasnovae
speciesTypha krasnovae
Typha × soligorskiensis
hybridTypha × soligorskiensis
Typha austro-orientalis
speciesTypha austro-orientalis
Smirnov's Cattail
hybridTypha × smirnovii
Typha subulata
speciesTypha subulata
Typha × gezei
hybridTypha × gezei
Typha tzvelevii
speciesTypha tzvelevii
Caspian Cattail
speciesTypha caspica
Typha vembanada
speciesTypha vembanada
Typha przewalskii
speciesTypha przewalskii
Typha lugdunensis
speciesTypha lugdunensis
Typha × argoviensis
hybridTypha × argoviensis
Typha × bavarica
hybridTypha × bavarica
Typha × volgensis
hybridTypha × volgensis
Typha × suwensis
hybridTypha × suwensis
Typha albida
speciesTypha albida
Typha azerbaijanensis
speciesTypha azerbaijanensis
Typha biarmica
speciesTypha biarmica
Typha davidiana
speciesTypha davidiana
Typha joannis
speciesTypha joannis
Typha paludosa
speciesTypha paludosa
Typha sinantropica
speciesTypha sinantropica
Typha sistanica
speciesTypha sistanica
Typha valentinii
speciesTypha valentinii
Typha varsobica
speciesTypha varsobica
Typha androssovii
speciesTypha androssovii
Typha ephemeroida
speciesTypha ephemeroida
Typha kamelinii
speciesTypha kamelinii
Typha komarovii
speciesTypha komarovii
Typha kozlovii
speciesTypha kozlovii
Typha sakhalinica
speciesTypha sakhalinica
Typha tichomirovii
speciesTypha tichomirovii
Typha alekseevii
speciesTypha alekseevii
Typha turcomanica
speciesTypha turcomanica
Typha changbaiensis
speciesTypha changbaiensis
Typha grossheimii
speciesTypha grossheimii
Kalat Cattail
speciesTypha kalatensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.857
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.855
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.469
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.753
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.477
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.609
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.554
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1035
Stirpium adversaria nova
Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.63
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.537
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.537
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.615
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48686.