NOUN
- tall North American reed having relative wide leaves and large plumelike panicles; widely distributed in moist areas; used for mats, screens and arrow shafts
How To Use common reed In A Sentence
- The common reed is a tall perennial grass found in marshes and along river and lake edges.
- Other native vegetation is mainly grassland composed of seacoast bluestem, sea-oats, common reed, gulfdune paspalum, and soilbind morning-glory. Ecoregions of Texas (EPA)
- Articles from this project include: Alcids in marine ecosystems, Environmental and social implications of dam removal, Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction, Mercury in the Gulf of Maine watershed, Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America, Secondary salinization. Student Science Communication Project
- There are also several contributions on the sulphur-analog selenium, and on non-crop plant species, such as the common reed, algae and mosses.