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Floating bur-reed

Sparganium fluctuans

Also called Floating Burreed, Floating Leaved Burreed, Water Burreed

Floating bur-reed
Photo: Rob Routledge, Sault College, Bugwood.org, CC BY 3.0
Family
Typhaceae (Typh family)
Grows as
Aquatic
Native range
Canada to N. U.S.A.
Climate
temperate

About

Sparganium fluctuans is a species of bur-reed found in North America known by the common name floating bur-reed. It is listed as endangered in Connecticut.

Other Sparganium plants

American bur-reed · Narrowleaf bur-reed · European bur-reed · Simplestem bur-reed · Broadfruit bur-reed · Clustered bur-reed · Sparganium gramineum · Small bur-reed · Bur-reed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sparganium fluctuans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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