Typha orientalisC.Presl

Oriental Cattail

WFO wfo-0000595698 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Typha orientalis, photographed by Joe Dillon
fig. a Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203786256
Typha orientalis, photographed by Jaco Grundling
fig. b Jaco Grundling, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192078302
Typha orientalis, photographed by Halema J
fig. c Halema J, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192041565
Typha orientalis, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. d Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195561172
Typha orientalis, photographed by Arnim Littek
fig. e Arnim Littek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189996330
Typha orientalis, photographed by Arnim Littek
fig. f Arnim Littek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189686631
Typha orientalis, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. g Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196068283

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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 = 105 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 105 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 8 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.

  • Typha angustifolia subsp. muelleri (Rohrb.) Graebn.
  • Typha japonica Miq.
  • Typha latifolia var. orientalis (C.Presl) Rohrb.
  • Typha muelleri Rohrb.
  • Typha orientalis var. brunnea Skvortsov
  • Typha shuttleworthii Lehm.
  • Typha shuttleworthii subsp. orientalis (C.Presl) Graebn.
  • Typha shuttleworthii var. orientalis (C.Presl) Rohrb.

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.