The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Phragmites
Also called Common Reed, Common Reeds
Phragmites is a genus of six large perennial reed grasses that grow in wetlands across temperate and tropical regions. Common Reed (Phragmites australis) is the species most often grown, and it needs constant moisture or shallow standing water.
Phragmites () is a genus of six species of large perennial reed grasses found in wetlands throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Phragmites by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
