Arundo donax L.

POACEAE

- Grass family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Arundo donax L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 81 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Giant reed

English name: giant-reed

English name: Spanish-reed

Spanish name: caña de Castilla

French name: grand roseau

Italian name: Canna domestica

German name: Pfahlrohr

Grown habit: Subshrub, Shrub, Graminoid
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:
= Arundo donax L. var. versicolor (Mill.) Stokes
= Arundo versicolor Mill.

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Arundo donax L. var. versicolor (Mill.) Stokes

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Commelinidae
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Arundo
Species:

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Athens, Areopagus , Attica, Greece, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Habit at Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Arundo donax
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

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Habit with Lloyd at Stable Rd Spreckelsville, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Ponza, prime pendici dietro l'abitato., LT, Lazio, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Arundo donax
Habit with Philip at Stable Rd Spreckelsville, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Arundo donax
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Habit at Stable Rd Spreckelsville, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Arundo donax
Habit in gulch at Kula, Maui - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Arundo donax
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Sata Margherita Ligure, centro abitato, presso Villa Durazzo., GE, Liguria, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Credit: Photo by Pancrazio Campagna

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Arundo donax
Credit: Photo by Beppe Di Gregorio

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Robert H. Mohlenbrock USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image

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Arundo donax
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Gran Canaria, barranco, Gran Canaria, Spagna, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Habit at Panda Express Las Vegas, Nevada - Credit: Forest and Kim Starr - Plants of Hawaii - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Duino Aurisina, località Filtri di Aurisina, TS, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Arundo donax

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AL, AR, AZ, CA, DE, FL, GA, HI, IL, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NM, NV, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WV), USA+ (PR, VI)

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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Arundo donax L. var. versicolor (Mill.) Stokes [143]
2) Arundo festucacea Willd. [152]
3) Arundo semiannularis Labill. [147]
4) Arundo versicolor Mill. [139]
5) Asarina erubescens (D. Don) Pennell [237]
6) Asarum acuminatum (Ashe) E.P. Bicknell [95]
7) Asarum canadense L. var. acuminatum Ashe [94]
8) Asarum reflexum E.P. Bicknell [140]
9) Asclepias bicknellii Vail [151]
10) Asclepias decumbens (Nutt.) Decne. [172]

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