Typha latifoliaL.

broadleaf cattail

WFO wfo-0000595260 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Typha latifolia, photographed by Светлана Царахова
fig. a Светлана Царахова, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205755108
Typha latifolia, photographed by Валерий Гончарук
fig. b Валерий Гончарук, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203939164
Typha latifolia, photographed by Дарья Орлова
fig. c Дарья Орлова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203262211
Typha latifolia, photographed by Caleb Catto
fig. d Caleb Catto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202500613
Typha latifolia, photographed by David Sandler
fig. e David Sandler, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200247154
Typha latifolia, photographed by Carter Dorscht
fig. f Carter Dorscht, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201195446
Typha latifolia, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. g Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197570421
Typha latifolia, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. h Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199556435

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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 = 946 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 946 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 36 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.

  • Massula latifolia (L.) Dulac
  • Typha ambigua Schur ex Rohrb.
  • Typha angustifolia lus. uechtritzii Kronf.
  • Typha angustifolia prol. brownii Kronf.
  • Typha angustifolia var. elata (Boreau) Nyman
  • Typha angustifolia var. media Kronf.
  • Typha angustifolia var. sonderi Kronf.
  • Typha crassa Raf.
  • Typha elata Boreau
  • Typha elatior Raf.
  • Typha elatior Boreau
  • Typha elongata Pauquy
  • Typha elongata (Dudley) Dudley
  • Typha engelmannii A.Br. ex Rohrb.
  • Typha intermedia Schur
  • Typha latifolia f. ambigua (Sond.) Holmb.
  • Typha latifolia f. didyma Brenner
  • Typha latifolia f. divisa Louis-Marie
  • Typha latifolia f. intermedia Lindstr.
  • Typha latifolia f. latifolia
  • Typha latifolia subsp. eulatifolia Graebn.
  • Typha latifolia var. ambigua Sond.
  • Typha latifolia var. angustifolia Hausskn.
  • Typha latifolia var. elata Kronf.

and 12 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.