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Bulrush is a vernacular name for several large wetland grass-like plants. Rushes (Juncaceae)
Typha latifolia is a perennial herbaceous wetland plant in the genus Typha. It is known in English as bulrush [4] [5] (sometimes as common bulrush [6] to distinguish from other species of Typha), and in American as broadleaf cattail. [7]
bulrush, Any of the annual or perennial grasslike plants constituting the genus Scirpus, especially S. lacustris, in the sedge family, that bear solitary or much-clustered spikelets. Bulrushes grow in wet locations, including ponds, marshes, and lakes.
Other taxa of plants may be known as bulrush, including some sedges in Scirpus and related genera. The genus is largely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, where it is found in a variety of wetland habitats.
Bulrush can be found in wet meadows, swamps, shallow pond edges and muddy areas. Pros and Cons of Bulrush. Seeds of bulrushes are consumed by ducks and other birds; while geese, muskrats, and nutria consume the rhizomes and early shoots. Submerged portions of all aquatic plants provide habitats for many micro and macro invertebrates.
This fuels the prodigious growth of native plants like bulrushes. In turn, they give back by filtering the water running through their beds. As water flows through the maze of submerged stems and rhizomes, the bulrushes absorb excess fertilizers and chemicals.
Hardstem bulrush is a perennial, rhizomatous, wetland obligate species that reaches up to 3 m (10 ft) in height and forms very dense stands. The stems are upright, gray-green to dark-green, round, 1 to 2 cm (0.4 to 0.8 in) thick and 1 to 3 m (3 to 10 ft) tall.
California bulrush is a native, herbaceous, rhizomatous perennial which forms dense colonies on mud flats, in open water and at shore water interface. The stems are remarkable in their length of five to ten feet. The stems are slightly angled with drooping branched terminal inflorescences.
Great reedmace, also know known as 'bulrush', is a familiar plant of freshwater margins, such as the edges of ponds, lakes, ditches and rivers. Its impressive stance - with long leaves and tall stems - makes it stand out from other wetlands plants.
Common cattails, also known as bulrushes, are perennial aquatic plants that grow in boggy marshes and wetland areas across temperate regions. They have an upright growth habit with basal leaves, a long, narrow upright stem, and a tall cylindrical inflorescence.