Typha domingensisPers.

southern cattail

WFO wfo-0000594910 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Typha domingensis, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. a Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 194402739
Typha domingensis, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. b Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195406290
Typha domingensis, photographed by Ellky Arteta Paredes
fig. c Ellky Arteta Paredes, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175569968
Typha domingensis, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. d Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195424017
Typha domingensis, photographed by Rachel Stringham
fig. e Rachel Stringham, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187395591
Typha domingensis, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. f Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195424051
Typha domingensis, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. g Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195424288
Typha domingensis, photographed by Kym Nicolson
fig. h Kym Nicolson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181719196

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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 = 158 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 158 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 49 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 abyssinica Rchb.f. ex Rohrb.
  • Typha aequalis Schnizl.
  • Typha aethiopica Kronf.
  • Typha americana Rich. ex Rohrb.
  • Typha angustata Bory & Chaub.
  • Typha angustata subsp. aethiopica (Rohrb.) Kronf.
  • Typha angustata var. abyssinica (Rchb.f. ex Rohrb.) Graebn.
  • Typha angustata var. aethiopica Rohrb.
  • Typha angustata var. gracilis Nyman
  • Typha angustata var. leptocarpa Rohrb.
  • Typha angustifolia prol. australis (Schumach.) Rouy
  • Typha angustifolia subsp. angustata (Bory & Chaub.) Briq.
  • Typha angustifolia subsp. australis (Schumach.) Kronf.
  • Typha angustifolia subsp. domingensis (Pers.) Rohrb.
  • Typha angustifolia subsp. javanica (Schnizl. ex Rohrb.) Graebn.
  • Typha angustifolia var. angustata (Bory & Chaub.) Jord.
  • Typha angustifolia var. australis (Schumach.) Rohrb.
  • Typha angustifolia var. brownii (Kunth) Kronf.
  • Typha angustifolia var. domingensis (Pers.) Hemsl.
  • Typha angustifolia var. domingensis (Pers.) Griseb.
  • Typha angustifolia var. saulseana Legrand
  • Typha angustifolia var. tenuispicata Debeaux
  • Typha angustifolia var. virginica Tidestr.
  • Typha australis Schumach.

and 25 more.

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.