Identificaciones de goosiaczek

Life stage: It’s in the vegetative growth/ fruiting life stage (The more mature ones are producing seeds while the younger ones keep growing to produce the following years seeds).

Origin: introduced from Eurasia.

Defining Traits: The plant hight ranges from 150 cm to- 400cm. The leaf blade length ranges from 15-40cm. The nodes are hairless while the stem has multiple hairs. The stem thickness is 5-15mm.

Plant Community: lives in disturbed habitats and edges of wetlands.

Background/other info: This species is extremely invasive and taking over the native species variety. Difficult to remove as it reproduces using rhizomes.

References:

https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/phragmites/australis/

https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatic/plants/common-reed