Flowering reeds
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Most often we see the yellowed and dry stems of common reeds where the waves have heaped them on the shore, or used in woven mats, and we don’t think of what the flowers of the reed (Phragmites australis) might look like. In mid-summer its violet-tinged flower panicles can be examined - if you can get at them. The common reed can grow up to four metres tall, taller than for instance the bulrush that reaches up to three metres.
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