Index / Search / Phragmites australis ssp. australis
§1 Plant
Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. ssp. australis
vernacular European common reed — subspecies · Poaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus
- Phragmites
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 233 counties across 29 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 233 counties across 29 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 21 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 52 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Columbia 36021
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Orleans 36073
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Schoharie 36095
- Schuyler 36097
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Utah view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 46 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Alleghany 51005
- Amherst 51009
- Arlington 51013
- Bedford 51019
- Brunswick 51025
- Campbell 51031
- Charles City 51036
- Charlotte 51037
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Culpeper 51047
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Fluvanna 51065
- Gloucester 51073
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Lunenburg 51111
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Norfolk (city) 51710
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Orange 51137
- Portsmouth (city) 51740
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince William 51153
- Southampton 51175
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Surry 51181
- Sussex 51183
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
Washington view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/PHAUA7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7226752 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
fetched 2026-05-26T20:46:58Z