Index / Search / Bolboschoenus maritimus
§1 Plant
Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla
vernacular cosmopolitan bulrush — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Bolboschoenus
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 408 counties across 33 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Medium
- Salinity
- High
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -23 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 110 min.
- Precipitation
- 40–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 4–7
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Lifespan
- Long
- Mature height
- 3.2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Green
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 408 counties across 33 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 7 N ▾
California view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Butte 06007
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- Del Norte 06015
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Imperial 06025
- Inyo 06027
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Lassen 06035
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Modoc 06049
- Mono 06051
- Monterey 06053
- Orange 06059
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Joaquin 06077
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Sutter 06101
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Colorado view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Barber 20007
- Barton 20009
- Cloud 20029
- Edwards 20047
- Ellis 20051
- Finney 20055
- Ford 20057
- Gray 20069
- Hamilton 20075
- Harper 20077
- Jewell 20089
- Kearny 20093
- Kiowa 20097
- Meade 20119
- Mitchell 20123
- Morton 20129
- Osborne 20141
- Pratt 20151
- Reno 20155
- Republic 20157
- Rice 20159
- Russell 20167
- Sheridan 20179
- Sherman 20181
- Stafford 20185
- Sumner 20191
- Wallace 20199
Maine view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Nevada view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 14 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 41 N ▾
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Billings 38007
- Bottineau 38009
- Bowman 38011
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Dunn 38025
- Eddy 38027
- Emmons 38029
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grand Forks 38035
- Grant 38037
- Griggs 38039
- Kidder 38043
- Logan 38047
- McHenry 38049
- McIntosh 38051
- McKenzie 38053
- McLean 38055
- Morton 38059
- Mountrail 38061
- Nelson 38063
- Pembina 38067
- Pierce 38069
- Ramsey 38071
- Ransom 38073
- Richland 38077
- Rolette 38079
- Sargent 38081
- Sheridan 38083
- Slope 38087
- Steele 38091
- Stutsman 38093
- Traill 38097
- Walsh 38099
- Ward 38101
- Williams 38105
Ohio view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Aurora 46003
- Brookings 46011
- Brown 46013
- Butte 46019
- Charles Mix 46023
- Clark 46025
- Clay 46027
- Codington 46029
- Day 46037
- Fall River 46047
- Gregory 46053
- Hamlin 46057
- Hyde 46069
- Jackson 46071
- Jones 46075
- Lake 46079
- Lincoln 46083
- Lyman 46085
- Meade 46093
- Pennington 46103
- Spink 46115
- Stanley 46117
- Union 46127
- Walworth 46129
- Yankton 46135
Texas view state ↗ 20 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Box Elder 49003
- Cache 49005
- Carbon 49007
- Daggett 49009
- Davis 49011
- Duchesne 49013
- Emery 49015
- Garfield 49017
- Grand 49019
- Juab 49023
- Kane 49025
- Millard 49027
- Rich 49033
- Salt Lake 49035
- San Juan 49037
- Sanpete 49039
- Sevier 49041
- Summit 49043
- Tooele 49045
- Uintah 49047
- Utah 49049
- Washington 49053
- Wayne 49055
- Weber 49057
Virginia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Washington view state ↗ 19 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/BOMA7 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2718307 ↗Record version
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