Narrowleaf cattail
கண்பு
Typha angustifolia L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 1.2 m
- wide
- 2.2 m
Typhaceae
Also called Narrow-leaved cattail, Lesser bulrush, Lesser reedmace, Lesser Bulrush
Formerly Massula angustifolia, Typha angustata, Typha austro-orientalis, Typha elatior, and 4 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- HelophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. Northern HemisphereKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; RHS full
- Height
- 99 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–7 ft; RHS 1–1.5 m
- Spread
- 1.7 m to 2.8 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 3–5 ft; RHS 2.5–4 m
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- BrownRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -32.8 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -45.6 °C; RHS -20 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Tule, junco, Totora
- root
- TYPANG, miish, toiba
- Catalan
- boga de fulla estreta
- German
- Schmalblättriger Rohrkolben
- French
- Massette à feuilles étroites, roseau à massette, Quenouille à feuilles étroites
- Portuguese
- taboa-fina
- Czech
- orobinec úzkolistý
- Chinese
- 水燭
- Danish
- Smalbladet dunhammer
- Swedish
- Smalkaveldun
- Estonian
- ahtalehine hundinui
- Korean
- 애기부들
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- 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
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Typha angustifolia (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.