Common reed
ഞാങ്ങണনলখাগড়া
Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 4.9 m
- wide
- —
Poaceae
Also called Common Reed
Formerly Arundo australis
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
- Helophyte or rhizomatous hydrogeophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. & Subtrop. to Trop. Mts.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.7 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- German
- Schilf, Gewöhnliches Schilf
- French
- Roseau, roseau, Phragmite commun
- Simplified Chinese
- 芦, 苇, 葭
- Chinese
- 毛叶石楠, 芦苇, 芦花
- Dutch
- Riet, riet
- Czech
- rákos obecný
- Korean
- 갈대
- Bangla
- নলখাগড়া
- Malayalam
- ഞാങ്ങണ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3D model: Phragmites australis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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