Sparganium eurycarpum (Giant bur-reed)

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Sparganium eurycarpum Engelm.

Giant bur-reed, broadfruit bur-reed

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Sparganium californicum Greene
Sparganium eurycarpum Engelm. ssp. eurycarpum

6/22/2017 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 6 × 10″ (16 × 24 cm)

6/22/2017 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 5 × 8″ (13 × 20 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Liliopsida	Monocots (plants with a single seed leaf); includes the lily family
Subclass	Commelinidae	Dayflowers and spiderworts, and several others
Order	Typhales	A group including reedlike wetland plants such as cattails
Family	Typhaceae	Plants, such as cattails, with a single flower spike that has both male and female flowers
Genus	Sparganium	From Greek and Latin sparganion, derived from sparganon, “diaper, ribbon, swadding band, for the ribbon-like leaves
Species	eurycarpum	From eury or eurys, “wide or broad,” and carpa, “fruit”

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Sparganium eurycarpum description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.