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Arrowgrass

Triglochin

Also called Arrow Grass, Arrowgrasses

Arrowgrass
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0

Triglochin is a genus of about 25 marsh herbs, mostly found in wet ground, shallow water and salt marshes across nearly every continent. Keep the roots wet and give them plenty of sun.

Family
Juncaginaceae (Juncagin family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently wet or standing in shallow water; do not let it dry out.
Soil
Moist, heavy or boggy soil, or mud at the edge of a pond.
How easy
Moderate

About

Triglochin is a plant genus in the family Juncaginaceae described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. It includes 25 known species. It is very nearly cosmopolitan in distribution, with species on every continent except Antarctica. North America has four accepted species, two of which can also be found in Europe: Triglochin palustris (marsh arrowgrass) and Triglochin maritima (sea arrowgrass). Australia has many more.

The most widely used common name for the genus is arrowgrass, although these plants are not really grasses. Many of the common names for species make use of the term "arrowgrass", although there are exceptions: T. procera, for example, is commonly known as water ribbons.

Other Triglochin plants

Triglochin scilloides · Seaside arrowgrass · Triglochin minutissima

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Triglochin 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.

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