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§1 Plant

Typha domingensis Pers.

vernacular southern cattail — species · Typhaceae


USDA
TYDO
GBIF
5289534
Rank
species
southern cattail (Typha domingensis)
Platephotograph · Todd FitzgeraldCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Typhaceae Juss.
Genus
Typha
§2a

Native status, by region

  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • PR Puerto Rico Native
  • VI U.S. Virgin Islands Native
§2b

County-level range

· 271 counties across 24 states/territories
Legend Native · 270 Introduced · 1 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 271 counties across 24 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 3 N
Arizona view state ↗ 15 N
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N
Colorado view state ↗ 9 N
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
Florida view state ↗ 41 N
Georgia view state ↗ 6 N
Hawaii view state ↗ 1 I
Kansas view state ↗ 26 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 23 N
Maryland view state ↗ 1 N
Mississippi view state ↗ 3 N
Missouri view state ↗ 4 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 4 N
Nevada view state ↗ 7 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 4 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 7 N
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N
Oklahoma view state ↗ 14 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N
Texas view state ↗ 65 N
Utah view state ↗ 17 N
Virginia view state ↗ 8 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/TYDO ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5289534 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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