Phragmites australis
Common Name: Common Reed
Description: Semi-aquatic, fast growing bamboo-like perennial grass with strongly creeping rhizomes. White to purplish flowering panicles, January to April. This plant can become invasive in farm dams. Habitat for water birds.
Flower Colour: White |
Central Victorian Uplands |
Mallee |
This plant is considered rare and endanged. |