Species: Acorus americanus
Sweetflag
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Anthophyta
Class
Monocotyledoneae
Order
Arales
Family
Acoraceae
Genus
Acorus
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
Several-vein Sweetflag - sweetflag
Informal Taxonomy
Plants, Vascular - Flowering Plants - Other flowering plants
Formal Taxonomy
Plantae - Anthophyta - Monocotyledoneae - Arales - Acoraceae - Acorus - As treated by Kartesz, Acorus calamus excludes the plants sometimes treated as Acorus calamus var. americanus, which (following Thompson, 1995, Ph.D. diss., U.Illinois) is treated by him as Acorus americanus. However, Kartesz (5/98 review draft dataset) considers both A. calamus (in this strict sense) and A. americanus to be native to the United States and Canada.
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1984-01-19
Global Status Last Changed
1984-01-19
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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