Characteristics
Monocots
Phragmites australis (Cav.)Trin. ex Steud.
COMMON REED
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Phragmites australis s.str. (introduced, widespread in the USA, rare in Florida) is characterized by a dull culm with conspicuous longitudinal grooves, ligule 0.4-0.9 mm long, leaf sheaths not caducous, and inflorescence branches stiffly ascending to erect. Phragmites australis was first reported from Florida from a 2013 collection in Pinellas Co. (Overholt PIN01, Overholt et al. 2014). See also http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in898
Not Native
FACW (NWPL)
OBL (DEP)
Classification
Citation
PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS (Cavanilles) Trinius ex Steudel, Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2. 2: 324. 1841.
Arundo australis Cavanilles 1799.
AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: Ca. half a league before reaching Botany Bay, coming from Port Jackson, Apr, Née s.n. (holotype: MA).
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