Common Name: Dwarf Cattail
o Scientific Name: Typha minima
o Family: Typhacae
o Flowering Period: May-June
o Flower type: Small brown catkins appearing in summer are surrounded by narrow, grassy, reed-like leaves.
o One additional interesting fact of your choice: They are not that small even though they're called dwarf cattail
Location found - widespread throughout temperate grasslands in europe and asia.
The dwarf cattail is threatened by extinction.
It doesn't have much impact on the environment.
o Scientific Name: Typha minima
o Family: Typhacae
o Flowering Period: May-June
o Flower type: Small brown catkins appearing in summer are surrounded by narrow, grassy, reed-like leaves.
o One additional interesting fact of your choice: They are not that small even though they're called dwarf cattail
Location found - widespread throughout temperate grasslands in europe and asia.
The dwarf cattail is threatened by extinction.
It doesn't have much impact on the environment.
o Common Name: Yellow Iris
o Scientific Name: Iris psuedacorus
o Family: Iridacae
o Flowering Period: May- June
o Flower type: Flowers on erect stalks (peduncles) 3-4 feet in height; bisexual; large, showy, pale to deep yellow; the only yellow iris in the U.S.; several flowers on each stem; flowers having 6 clawed perianth segments including 3 large downward-spreading sepals and 3 smaller erect petals; on each flower sepal (yellow, large and petal-looking) are patterns of delicate light-brownish to purple veins or flecks
o One additional interesting fact of your choice: also an invasive species considered by some to be one
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Location found- in temperate grasslands throughout america, also can grow in marshes.
They grow in huge clumps and are resistant to cold climate as well as warm.
o Scientific Name: Iris psuedacorus
o Family: Iridacae
o Flowering Period: May- June
o Flower type: Flowers on erect stalks (peduncles) 3-4 feet in height; bisexual; large, showy, pale to deep yellow; the only yellow iris in the U.S.; several flowers on each stem; flowers having 6 clawed perianth segments including 3 large downward-spreading sepals and 3 smaller erect petals; on each flower sepal (yellow, large and petal-looking) are patterns of delicate light-brownish to purple veins or flecks
o One additional interesting fact of your choice: also an invasive species considered by some to be one
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Location found- in temperate grasslands throughout america, also can grow in marshes.
They grow in huge clumps and are resistant to cold climate as well as warm.
o Common Name: Snake grass
o Scientific Name: Equisetum
o Family: Equistacae
o Flowering Period: May-August
o Flower type: The sterile stems are 10–90 cm tall and 3–5 mm diameter, with jointed segments around 2–5 cm long with whorls of side shoots at the segment joints; the side shoots have a diameter of about 1 mm. Some stems can have as many as 20 segments.
o One additional interesting fact of your choice: Has a diplod # of 216
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Location found - native throughout the arctic and temperate regions of the northern hemisphere.
It spreads in thick bunches and bushes grouping around each other
o Common Name: Dwarf Papyrus
o Scientific Name: Cyperus Haspens
o Family: Cyperacae
o Flowering Period: Flower during the summertime
o Flower type: strong stems reaching up to 30 inches tall with tufted umbrella-like foliage on the end. The tufts are yellow-green and turn a rich bronze in late summer.
o One additional interesting fact of your choice: Can be invasive if planted directly at pond edge
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Location Found - found in temperate ecosystems and small bodies of water across the globe
Can harm the environment and restrict other plant growth if planted near a ponds edge
o Scientific Name: Cyperus Haspens
o Family: Cyperacae
o Flowering Period: Flower during the summertime
o Flower type: strong stems reaching up to 30 inches tall with tufted umbrella-like foliage on the end. The tufts are yellow-green and turn a rich bronze in late summer.
o One additional interesting fact of your choice: Can be invasive if planted directly at pond edge
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Location Found - found in temperate ecosystems and small bodies of water across the globe
Can harm the environment and restrict other plant growth if planted near a ponds edge
o Common Name: Corkscrew rush
o Scientific Name: Juncus effusus
o Family: Juncacae
o Flowering Period: Year round
o Flower type:Plants grow to 45 cm high. The young, leafless stems are light green and coiled, the coils becoming looser with age.Plants grow in both a horizontal and vertical direction. By winter, stems become a yellow-brown or tan colour.
o One additional interesting fact of your choice: The origin is in Japan
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Location found - species can be found everywhere around the world except for Antarctica
o Scientific Name: Juncus effusus
o Family: Juncacae
o Flowering Period: Year round
o Flower type:Plants grow to 45 cm high. The young, leafless stems are light green and coiled, the coils becoming looser with age.Plants grow in both a horizontal and vertical direction. By winter, stems become a yellow-brown or tan colour.
o One additional interesting fact of your choice: The origin is in Japan
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Location found - species can be found everywhere around the world except for Antarctica