Species Detail - Common Reed (Phragmites australis) - Species information displayed is based on the dataset "Vascular plants: Online Atlas of Vascular Plants 2012 Onwards".

Terrestrial Map - 10km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 10km grid square (ITM).
Live Map

Marine Map - 50km

Distribution of the number of records recorded within each 50km grid square (WGS84).
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Phragmites australis
Common Reed
NHMSYS0000461214 RecommendedWell-formed
N/A
phaus
(Cav.) Trin. ex Steud.
Flowering plant
Species
592
233
93
01/01/2002
27/12/2025
1 January (recorded in 1988)
27 December (recorded in 2025)
Collated by the National Biodiversity Data Centre from different sources, Vascular plants: Online Atlas of Vascular Plants 2012 Onwards, National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland, Common Reed (Phragmites australis), accessed 21 April 2026, https://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/Dataset/409/Species/43600

Records per month (across all datasets)

Records per year (across all datasets)