Typha angustifoliaL.

narrow-leaved cattail

WFO wfo-0000594497 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Typha angustifolia, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. a Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203430721
Typha angustifolia, photographed by Оксана Серикова
fig. b Оксана Серикова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185029179
Typha angustifolia, photographed by Bruno Avilez
fig. c Bruno Avilez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173604931
Typha angustifolia, photographed by Becca
fig. d Becca, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175443942
Typha angustifolia, photographed by chiuluan
fig. e chiuluan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197288231
Typha angustifolia, photographed by cstobie
fig. f cstobie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178213511
Typha angustifolia, photographed by Mary K. Hanson
fig. g Mary K. Hanson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202352895
Typha angustifolia, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. h Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172803212

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 275 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 275 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 17 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.

  • Massula angustifolia (L.) Dulac
  • Typha angustifolia f. foveolata (Pobed.) Mavrodiev
  • Typha angustifolia f. submersa Glück
  • Typha angustifolia var. calumetensis Peattie
  • Typha angustifolia var. elatior (Boenn.) Godr.
  • Typha angustifolia var. elatior (Boenn.) Nyman
  • Typha angustifolia var. elongata Wiegand
  • Typha angustifolia var. inaequalis Kronf.
  • Typha angustifolia var. longispicata Peck
  • Typha elatior Boenn.
  • Typha foveolata Pobed.
  • Typha glauca Seg.-Vianna
  • Typha gracilis Rchb.
  • Typha latifolia var. minor Ambrosi
  • Typha media C.C.Gmel.
  • Typha minor Curtis
  • Typha pontica Klokov f. & Krasnova

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.