Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani(C.C.Gmel.) Palla

soft-stemmed bulrush

WFO wfo-0000528404 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, photographed by chiuluan
fig. a chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199145212
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, photographed by chiuluan
fig. b chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200281995
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, photographed by Halema J
fig. c Halema J, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193442455
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, photographed by johnyochum
fig. d johnyochum, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193198314
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, photographed by Arnim Littek
fig. e Arnim Littek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189997317
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, photographed by Arnim Littek
fig. f Arnim Littek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189588743
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. g Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194153192
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani, photographed by Saryu Mae 前 朝琉
fig. h Saryu Mae 前 朝琉, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191016288

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Flowering n = 316 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 316 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 50 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cyperus tabernaemontani (C.C.Gmel.) Missbach & E.H.L.Krause
  • Eleogiton tabernaemontani (C.C.Gmel.) Fourr.
  • Heleogiton glaucum Rchb.
  • Heleogiton tabernaemontani (C.C.Gmel.) Peterm.
  • Heleophylax tabernaemontani (C.C.Gmel.) Schinz & Thell.
  • Hymenochaeta tabernaemontani (C.C.Gmel.) Nakai
  • Schoenoplectus lacustris f. glaucus (Rchb.) Soó
  • Schoenoplectus lacustris subsp. creber (Fernald) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Schoenoplectus lacustris subsp. glaucus (Rchb.) Luceño & Marín
  • Schoenoplectus lacustris subsp. glaucus Bech.
  • Schoenoplectus lacustris subsp. tabernaemontani (C.C.Gmel.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Schoenoplectus lacustris subsp. validus (Vahl) T.Koyama
  • Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani f. paludosus (Boenn.) Soó
  • Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani f. sub-duvalii (Beckh.) Soó
  • Schoenoplectus validus (Vahl) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Schoenoplectus validus subsp. creber (Fernald) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Schoenoplectus validus subsp. luxurians (Miq.) Soják
  • Scirpus glaucus Sm.
  • Scirpus globifer Welw. ex Steud.
  • Scirpus lacustris f. glaucus (Rchb.) Peterm.
  • Scirpus lacustris f. pictus Honda
  • Scirpus lacustris subsp. creber (Fernald) T.Koyama
  • Scirpus lacustris subsp. digynus Lönnr.
  • Scirpus lacustris subsp. glaucus (Rchb.) Hartm.

and 26 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.