Scientific name: Typha latifolia L.
Common name: Bulrush
Description
Habit: Tall, erect, reed-like, hairless aquatic or semi-aquatic perennials. Stems usually overtopped by some leaves. Up to 200cm or more, robust.
Leaves: Alternate, simple, linear, entire, sessile with sheathing base, without stipules, 15-24mm wide, rather pale greyish-green, flat or spirally twisted; leaf-sheaths usually open at throat; sheath-margins free, usually tapering at throat into a pale green lamina.
Flowers: Monoecious, unisexual, hypogynous, actinomorphic; very numerous, in a dense, cylindrical spike, the upper part consisting of male flowers, with 1-5 stamens with fused filaments, the lower part of female flowers, with 1 1-celled, stalked ovary with 1 ovule, style 1, stigma lanceolate to linear; perianth represented by numerous hairs; flowers somewhat shorter than leaves.
Fruits: A small 1-seeded capsule; seeds (0.9-)1.2-1.5(-1.6)mm.
Habitat: Ditches, marshes, canals, lake-margins and slow streams.
Distribution: Frequent but local.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No