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§1 Plant
Typha angustifolia L.
vernacular narrowleaf cattail — species · Typhaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Typhaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Typha
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 285 counties across 19 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -33 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 130 min.
- Precipitation
- 30–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 3.7–8.5
- Root depth
- 10 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 4.9 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- Yes
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 285 counties across 19 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 6 B ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 2 B ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 44 B ▾
- Ballard 21007
- Bath 21011
- Bullitt 21029
- Calloway 21035
- Campbell 21037
- Carlisle 21039
- Clark 21049
- Clinton 21053
- Edmonson 21061
- Estill 21065
- Floyd 21071
- Fulton 21075
- Grant 21081
- Grayson 21085
- Hardin 21093
- Harrison 21097
- Hart 21099
- Hickman 21105
- Hopkins 21107
- Jackson 21109
- Jefferson 21111
- Kenton 21117
- Logan 21141
- Lyon 21143
- Madison 21151
- Magoffin 21153
- Marion 21155
- McCracken 21145
- McCreary 21147
- McLean 21149
- Menifee 21165
- Muhlenberg 21177
- Ohio 21183
- Oldham 21185
- Owen 21187
- Pike 21195
- Pulaski 21199
- Robertson 21201
- Rockcastle 21203
- Rowan 21205
- Shelby 21211
- Todd 21219
- Union 21225
- Warren 21227
Louisiana view state ↗ 15 B ▾
Maine view state ↗ 9 B ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 13 B ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 B ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 B ▾
Montana view state ↗ 4 B ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 B ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 20 B ▾
New York view state ↗ 38 B ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chautauqua 36013
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Genesee 36037
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 16 B ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 33 B ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Forest 42053
- Greene 42059
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- McKean 42083
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 B ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 7 B ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 42 B ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Augusta 51015
- Caroline 51033
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Culpeper 51047
- Dickenson 51051
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Franklin 51067
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Loudoun 51107
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- Montgomery 51121
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Powhatan 51145
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Prince William 51153
- Richmond 51159
- Stafford 51179
- Surry 51181
- Tazewell 51185
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/TYAN ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5289461 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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