Reeds are also very common along the marshes along NJ turnpike ... across from Manhattan down to the Delaware valley... but the species there is I think P. australis... inflorescence is abit more bulky and longer than p. communis... but regardless, bird watchers love these stands.. breeding and feeding grounds for many birds...
thanks for these pictures.. Usha di ====== On Nov 20, 6:51 pm, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Phragmites australis* (Cay.) Trin. ex Steud., Nom. Bot., ed. 2, 2:324. > 1841. > syn: *Phragmites* *communis* Trin.; *Arundo* *australis* Cay. > > Tall perennial reed up to 5 m tall; leaf-blades up to 60 cm long, up to 3 > cm broad with filiform tip; panicle up to 50 cm long, up to 20 cm broad; > spikelets 12-16 mm long with up to 10 mm long silky rhachilla hairs; upper > glume lanceolate 5-9 mm long, apiculate; lemma narrowly lanceolate, up to > 12 mm long. > > Common in Kashmir valley in ponds and banks of Dal Lake, Nagin Lake and > other lakes in the Valley. Photographed from Banks of Nagin Lake in > Kashmir. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > Phragmites-communis-Nagin-Kashmir-1-P1110786.jpg > 493KViewDownload > > Phragmites-communis-Nagin-Kashmir-2-DSC06618.jpg > 207KViewDownload > > Phragmites-communis-Nagin-Kashmir-3-DSC06620.jpg > 281KViewDownload > > Phragmites-communis-Nagin-Kashmir-4-DSC06626.jpg > 232KViewDownload
