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Typhaceae
European bur-reed
Sparganium emersum
Also known as Sparganium simplex var. fluitans, Sparganium chlorocarpum var. acaule, Sparganium emersum f. simile, Common bur-reed
Native Plants · Aquatic · Marginal Plant · Pond Plant · Wetland · Bog · Water Garden · Wildlife Habitat · Native · Perennial · Riparian
European bur-reed is an aquatic or marginal pond plant that requires consistently wet to submerged conditions and thrives best in full sun to partial shade. It is well suited to wildlife ponds, rain gardens, or bog features where it provides valuable habitat and cover for aquatic invertebrates and birds. Monitor its spread, as it can colonize shallow water areas aggressively over time.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Maintain standing water 2–6 inches deep or keep substrate permanently saturated · Keep consistently wet or submerged; water daily if not in standing water
- Maintenance
- Moderate
- Soil
- peat
- Soil pH
- 6.5–7
- Temperature
- -35°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Division
Hardiness
USDA 3b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 18 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Shallow
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia
- Attracts
- Bees, Birds, Moths
Sources: trefle, usda
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