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Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Butomus umbellatus is the Old World Palearctic and Asian plant species in the family Butomaceae. Common names include flowering rush or grass rush.
View Wikipedia Record: Butomus umbellatus

Infraspecies

Butomus umbellatus var. umbellatus
Butomus umbellatus var. vallisneriifolia

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Butomus umbellatus

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Flies, Lepidoptera
Scent [1]  The flowers have a scent of bitter almonds.
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [1]  20 inches (0.5 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Rich
Soil Moisture [2]  Submerged
View Plants For A Future Record : Butomus umbellatus

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Predators

Aphis consona (water lily aphid)[4]
Donacia sparganii[4]
Macroplea appendiculata[4]
Metopomyza ornata[4]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0