Typha latifolia L.
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- Family
- Typhaceae
- Botanical Name
- Typha latifolia L.
- Common Name
- Common Cattail, Broadleaf Cattail
- Synonym(s)
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Typha latifolia L.
- Comments
- This species hybridizes with T. angustifolia to form T. ×glauca Godron. See Comments under T. ×glauca.
- Habitat
- Freshwater and oligohaline tidal marshes, ponds, open swamps, sluggish streams and floodplain pools, calcareous marshes and fens, beaver impoundments, ditches, and other disturbed wetlands; can be invasive in natural or artificial wetlands that have been eutrophied by agricultural or urban runoff. Frequent to locally common throughout.
- Native Status
- Native
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