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Reed is a generic botanical term used to describe numerous tall, grass-like plants of wet places, often forming reed bed
Reed bed

Reed beds are a natural habitat found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions andestuary. Reed beds are part of a succession from young reed colonising open water or wet ground through a gradation of increasingly dry ground....
s, including:

In the Poaceae
Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the Magnoliophyta. Plants of this family are usually called grasses; the shrub- or tree-like plants in this family are called bamboo ....
 (grass) family:






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Reed is a generic botanical term used to describe numerous tall, grass-like plants of wet places, often forming reed bed
Reed bed

Reed beds are a natural habitat found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions andestuary. Reed beds are part of a succession from young reed colonising open water or wet ground through a gradation of increasingly dry ground....
s, including:

In the Poaceae
Poaceae

Poaceae or Gramineae is a family in the Class Liliopsida of the Magnoliophyta. Plants of this family are usually called grasses; the shrub- or tree-like plants in this family are called bamboo ....
 (grass) family:
  • Common reed (Phragmites australis Cav.), the original species named reed
  • Giant reed (Arundo donax
    Arundo donax

    Arundo donax L. is a tall Perennial plant reed, growing in fresh and moderately saline waters. Other common names include Carrizo, Spanish cane, wild cane, giant cane and arundo....
     L.), used for making reeds for musical instruments
  • Burma reed (Neyraudia reynaudiana)
  • Reed Canary-grass (Phalaris arundinacea)
  • Reed sweet-grass (Glyceria
    Glyceria

    Glyceria is a genus of Poaceae known commonly as mannagrass or sweet-grass. These are perennial Rhizome grasses found in wet areas in temperate regions worldwide....
     maxima    )
  • Small-reed (Calamagrostis
    Calamagrostis

    Calamagrostis, or Small-reed or Reedgrass, is a genus in the Grass family Poaceae with about 230 species that occur mainly in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere and the southern hemisphere....
     species)


In the Cyperaceae
Cyperaceae

The family Cyperaceae, or the sedges, is a taxon of monocotyledon flowering plants that superficially resemble Poaceae or Juncaceae. The family is large, with some 4,000 species described in about 70 genera....
 (sedge) family:
  • Paper reed or papyrus (Cyperus papyrus
    Cyperus papyrus

    Cyperus papyrus is a monocot belonging to the sedge family Cyperaceae. It is a herbaceous perennial plant native to Africa, and forms tall stands of reed-like swamp vegetation in shallow water....
    ), the source of the Ancient Egyptian writing material, also used for making boats


In the Sparganiaceae
Sparganiaceae

Sparganiaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family was previously recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots....
 family:
  • Bur-reed (Sparganium
    Sparganium

    Sparganium is a genus of flowering plants, containing about 20 species in temperate regions of both the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemispheres....
     species)


In the Typhaceae
Typhaceae

Typhaceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family has been recognized by most taxonomists.The APG II system, of 2003 , also recognizes this family, and assigns it to the order Poales in the clade commelinids, in the monocots....
 family:
  • Reed-mace (Typha
    Typha

    Typha is a genus of about eleven species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the monogeneric family, Typhaceae. The genus has a largely Northern Hemisphere distribution, but is essentially cosmopolitan distribution, being found in a variety of wetland habitats....
     species), also called bulrush or cattail


For thatching
Thatching

Thatching is the craft of covering a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, Phragmites, Cyperaceae, Juncus and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof....
, in which the term "reed" is used differently:
  • Norfolk reed or water reed, common reed
  • Wheat reed or Devon reed, certain kinds of wheat
    Wheat

    Wheat , is a worldwide cultivated Poaceae from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal just above rice....
     straw


See also

  • Constructed wetland
    Constructed wetland

    A constructed wetland or wetpark is an artificial marsh or swamp, created for anthropogenic discharge such as wastewater, stormwater runoff or sewage treatment, and as habitat for wildlife, or for land reclamation after mining or other disturbance....
  • Reed bed
    Reed bed

    Reed beds are a natural habitat found in floodplains, waterlogged depressions andestuary. Reed beds are part of a succession from young reed colonising open water or wet ground through a gradation of increasingly dry ground....
  • Reed fields
  • Thatching
    Thatching

    Thatching is the craft of covering a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, Phragmites, Cyperaceae, Juncus and heather, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof....