Phragmites

Phragmites australis {{{latin_name}}}	Common Reed
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Phragmites (Greek, growing in hedges, apparently from its hedge-like growth along ditches). Gramineae. Large grasses, useful for planting in wet places. Tall stout perennials with long running rootstocks, strong culms and terminal panicles with the aspect of Arundp: spikelets 3-7-fld. Differs from Arundo chiefly in having glabrous sharp-pointed not bifid lemmas, the long hairs confined to the rachilla-joints, and in that the lowest floret is staminate.—Species 3, 1 in Trop. Asia, 1 in S. Amer. and 1, our species, cosmopolitan. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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A previously sandy beach invaded by reeds.

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  Reed stems in flower, in France

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  Reed growth in early summer

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  Roadside reed left from previous year, in Hungary

References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

See also

• Psychedelic plants

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