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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Typha angustifolia
FAMILY
Typhaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Learn more about Typha from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Typha angustifolia
FAMILY
Typhaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Typha angustifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 019-01-003:
Typha angustifolia FAMILY Typhaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Typha angustifolia
COMMON NAME:
Narrowleaf Cattail
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_tyan_001_lvd
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USDA / Selected Weeds of the US. 1970 swus_page_011a
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_typha_angustifolia
May Dare County NC
Shorter than T. latifolia, and with narrower leaves, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Terry Holdsclaw tdh_typha_angustifolia_b
May Dare County NC
Its male and female flower spikes are separated by naked stem, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Typha angustifolia
FAMILY
Typhaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Typha angustifolia
FAMILY
Typhaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Typha angustifolia
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 019-01-003:
Typha angustifolia
FAMILY
Typhaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Typha angustifolia
2872
Forb
Perennial
Monoecious
Habitat: Brackish to fresh waters of marshes and swamps, usually tidal, and also inland in non-tidal wetlands (where probably only introduced), per Weakley's Flora
Native, apparently, in coastal areas
Common
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LEAVES:
Simple
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pistillate spike: Reddish-brown
Pistillate & staminate spikes usually separated by a gap
Unisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006) p239
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p480
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p137
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p350
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p403
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p001
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