Calamagrostis epigejos
Calamagrostis epigejos (L.) Roth
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.3 m
- wide
- —
Poaceae
Formerly Agrostis epigejos, Agrostis umbrosa, Arundo epigejos, Arundo intermedia, and 16 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
- Temp. Eurasia to Trop. & S. African Mts.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 61 cm to 2.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Chinese
- 密花拂子茅, 拂子茅
- Czech
- třtina křovištní
- German
- Sand-Reitgras
- Estonian
- Jäneskastik
- Finnish
- hietakastikka
- French
- calamagrostis commun
- Dutch
- duinriet, Duinriet
- Polish
- Trzcinnik piaskowy
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Calamagrostis epigejos (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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