Southern cat-tail
Typha domingensis Pers.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 2.6 m
- wide
- —
Typhaceae
Also called Southern cattail
Formerly Typha abyssinica, Typha aequalis, Typha aethiopica, Typha americana, and 14 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
- HelophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Tropics & SubtropicsKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 2.5 m to 2.7 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 2–2.5 m; Plants for a Future 3–3 m
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (3)
- Chinese
- 小白薇, 蒲黄, 长苞香蒲
- Simplified Chinese
- 长苞香蒲
- French
- Massette Australe
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Typha domingensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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