Sparganium erectum
Notifiable organism
Bur-reed, branched bur-reed
- Scientific Name
- Sparganium erectum
- Origin
- Southwestern temperate Asia, Europe, Morocco, Australia
- Type
- Weed
- Plant Life-form Type
- Marginal erect/tall
- Taxonomy
- L.
- Presence
- Not known to be in NZ
- Habitat
- Still or slow flowing water, margins fo water bodies.
- Notes
- Potentially a major weed in New Zealand
- Propagation
- Mainly vegetative spread, including rhizomes. Detached rhizomes and plants
- Features
- Emergent, deciduous, perennial with strap like leaves that are triangular in cross section. The monoecious white flowes are compacted racemes, borne on branched flowering stems. Fruit are balls of green spiny capsules.
- Source
- TIFBIS