Calamus
ಬಜೆबचஉரைப்பான்
Acorus calamus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 75 cm
- wide
- 75 cm
Acoraceae
Also called Beewort, Calamus root, Calamus-root, Flag root, Muskrat root
Formerly Acorus angustatus, Acorus angustifolius, Acorus belangeri, Acorus calamus-aromaticus, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. Asia (Irtysh River valley)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, green, brownRead from RHS and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: RHS brown; Wikipedia green, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Kalmus, Ackerwurz, Gewürzkalmus
- Malayalam
- വയമ്പ്, വയമ്പ്
- Hindi
- बच, वच
- Simplified Chinese
- 臭草, 野枇杷, 凌水挡
- Chinese
- 菖蒲, 水菖蒲, 狭叶菖蒲
- Polish
- Ajer, Tatarak zwyczajny
- Catalan
- Càlam
- Japanese
- しょうぶ, ショウブコン, 菖蒲根
- Acehnese
- Jeureunggèë
- Old English
- Bēowyrt
- Arabic
- عود الوج, وج
- Azerbaijani
- Bataqlıq kəcəvəri
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Acorus calamus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.