🐾 common reed

Phragmites australis · wildlife atlas entry

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Phragmites is a genus of four species of large perennial grasses found in wetlands throughout temperate and tropical regions of the world. The World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, maintained by Kew Garden in London, accepts the following four species: Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Record card

Scientific name	Phragmites australis
Rank	species
Community observations	142,965 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Liliopsida › order Poales › family Poaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

common reed photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-24 · Partizanskiy rayon, RU-PR, RU
(c) ivansemenkov, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

common reed photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-18 · Рамонский р-н, Воронежская обл., Россия
(c) ver_un_erizo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common reed photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-18 · Рамонский р-н, Воронежская обл., Россия
(c) ver_un_erizo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common reed photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Selzthal, Österreich
(c) Sepp Schmid, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common reed photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-16 · Семилукский р-н, Воронежская обл., Россия
(c) ver_un_erizo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common reed photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-16 · Семилукский р-н, Воронежская обл., Россия
(c) ver_un_erizo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common reed photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · W Lake Park Blvd, West Valley City, UT, US
(c) whatssnew, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

common reed photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-14 · Horse Guards Road, London, England, GB
(c) Jose Gutierrez Higa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

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