Family |
Typhaceae
Typha latifolia
L.
Typha latifolia L.
First published in Sp. Pl.: 971 (1753).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 1, p. 22, Pl. VIII, 3; 1966)
Description
Life-form & habit: Perennial wetland herb, 1–2 m tall.
Leaves: Green to slightly bluish, 7–16 mm wide, equalling or overtopping the flowering stem.
Inflorescence & flowers: Cylindrical male and female spikes are usually contiguous and of similar length, occasionally separated by a small gap. The female spike is brown and the male spike paler. Minute flowers have slender, flexible stalks and white, pointed hairs; the oblique stigma is brown-black.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: Flowering and fruiting in spring–summer.
Habitat & elevation: Ditches and ponds.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Saida, Ammiq and Sannine; Mouterde also records Dora, where the station had been destroyed.
Syrian distribution: Banks of the Barada.
Native range: Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, Djibouti, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Ethiopia, Finland, Florida, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Idaho, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Louisiana, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Nebraska, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, NW. Balkan Pen., Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Sicilia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Yukon.
Introduced into: Hawaii, Labrador, Magadan, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria.