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Borealis Catalog Peganum harmala (Syrian rue) seeds and Phragmites australis rhizomes are available from this outfit.

Phragmites australis Information about the common reed.

(A Flora of Kern County. Twisselmann 581.9794 T974)
Phragmites communis Trinus var Berlanderi (Fournier) Fernald.
Carizzo grass. Now known only from Mesquite Springs at the southeast base of the El Paso Mountains (T10,300), carizszo grass was once much more common in the county. Lt. R.S.Williamson (Report of Explorations in California for Rail Road Routes, IV:18) reported it was abundant in 1853 along Canbrake Creek (which was named for the grass) west of Walker Pass adn along Kelso Creek south of Weldon where Williamson observed Indians harvesting the grass for the sugar incrustations on the leaves. According to Donald J. Bedell (oral communication) cattle graze it avidly. Its extermination, however, is more likely to have been caused by horse pawing out its roots in times of scant forage.

Phragmites communis, Phragmites australis
See also:Phragmites, Plant Database, Phytochemistry, Ethnobotany, Borealis, Hyperreal
Note: Most botanical texts consider P. australis and P. communis to be synonyms for the same plant. Many assert that there is only one species in the genus Phragmites.

(?Aq&WP?Texas?)
14. Phragmites Trin.
A genus of 3 species, cosmopolitan; we have one.
1. Phragmites communis Trin. Common Reed. Figs.93 and 94.
Perennial reed with thick rhizomes; culms 1-3 meters tall, 5-15 mm thick; ligule a short touch lacerate fringe; blades flat, 1-4 cm. broad; panicle a large terminal plume, many-branched and densely flowered; spikelets few-flowered, the lower flowers empty or merely staminate, the rest perfect; rachilla abscising at the upper part of each node, the fragments thus consisting of one floret with a portion of the densely long-silky-villous rachilla below (not above) the node; glumes lanceolate, glabrous, about 11 mm long.
Locally abundant in marshes, seeps, along rivers, at streamsides and canal banks, scattered throughout our region, fall; in most parts of the warmer parts of the world.

(Muenscher R581.928 M948)
PHRAGMITES: Reed
Coarse perennials with hard, erect stems 1 to 5 meters high, from long, coarse, scaly, creeping rootstocks. Leaves with long, flat blades. Spikelets in plumelike, terminal panicles 15 to 40 cm. long. Spikelets several-flowered, the lower flower staminate or neutral. Glumes 3-nerved, the first about 1.2 as long as the second. Lemmas 3-nerved, acuminate, glabrous, the lowest longer than the second glume, those of the upper part of the spikelet successively shorter. Palea much shorter than the lemma. The rhachilla with silky hairs which finally exceed the clumes and lemmas.
Phragmites communis Trin. Reed. Fig 56 A-B Map 130.
Along shores of lakes and streams, in fresh-water and brackish marshes, and about springs. Widespread except in the southeastern states.

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