Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Stout, 2–4 m, extensively colonial; ligule 1 mm; lvs flat, long-acuminate, usually 2–3 cm wide; infl subtended by a tuft of silky hairs, tawny, 2–4 dm, usually declined; spikelets 3–7-fld, narrowly linear before anthesis; first glume narrowly elliptic, rather blunt, the second linear, nearly twice as long; lemmas very narrow, 8–12 mm, the upper usually the shorter; hairs of the rachilla white, as long as the lemmas, exposed after anthesis as the lemmas diverge; 2n=36, 48, 54, 72, 84, ca 96. Swamps and wet shores, tolerant of salt, seldom producing seed; nearly cosmop, and throughout most of our range. (P. communis)
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Common Names
common reed