Sparganium emersum
Arctic Burreed
Sparganium natans
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- Botanical name
- Sparganium natans
- Also known as
- Arctic Burreed, Least Bur-Reed, Least Burreed, Slender Burreed, Small Bur-Reed, Small Burreed
- Family
- Typhaceae
- Genus
- Sparganium
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Arctic Burreed
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Sparganium natans but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Platanaria natans
Sparganium amplexicaulium
Sparganium axilare
Sparganium flaccidum
Sparganium gramineum
Sparganium minimum
Sparganium minimum
Sparganium minimum subvar. ratis
Sparganium minimum subvar. rostratum
Sparganium minimum subvar. septentrionale
Sparganium minimum var. flaccidum
Sparganium minimum var. perpusillum
Sparganium minimum var. rostratum
Sparganium minimum var. strictum
Sparganium natans var. minimum
Sparganium perpusillum
Sparganium ratis
Sparganium rostratum
Sparganium septentrionale
Sparganium tenuicaule
Others in Sparganium
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