Butomaceae
Flowering-rush
Butomus umbellatus
- Family
- Butomaceae
- Genus
- Butomus
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Common names
By language (42)
- Arabic
- بوطي خيمي
- Armenian
- Կարապածաղիկ հովանոցավոր
- arz
- بوطى خيمى
- Azerbaijani
- Çətirli suoxu
- Belarusian
- Сусак парасоністы
- Bulgarian
- Сенников водолюб
- Catalan
- Jonc fleuri
- Chinese
- 花蔺, 花藺, 全蝎
- Croatian
- Štitasti vodoljub, Cvatuća žukva, Vodeni zumbul
- Czech
- Šmel okoličnatý
- Danish
- Brudelys
- Dutch
- Zwanenbloem
- English
- Flowering-rush, Flowering rush, Grass rush
- Estonian
- Harilik luigelill
- Finnish
- Sarjarimpi
- French
- Jonc fleuri
- frr
- Swaanbluum
- German
- Schwanenblume, Jonc fleuri
- Hebrew
- בוציץ סוככני
- hsb
- Wokołkaty syćowc
- Icelandic
- Brúðarsveipur
- Irish
- Luachair bhláfar
- Japanese
- ハナイ科
- Korean
- 구주꽃골
- Latvian
- Čemurainais puķumeldrs
- Lithuanian
- Skėtinis bėžis, Jonc fleuri
- nds
- Zwaonebloeme
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Brudelys
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Brudelys
- Persian
- هزارنی
- Polish
- Łączeń baldaszkowy
- Romanian
- Crin de baltă
- Russian
- Сусак зонтичный, Красноцвет болотный, Ситный цвет, Хлебница
- Serbian
- Водољуб
- Slovak
- Okrasa okolíkatá
- Slovenian
- Kobulasta vodoljuba
- Spanish
- Butomus
- Swedish
- Blomvass, Jonc fleuri
- Ukrainian
- Сусак
- Vietnamese
- Cỏ lận
- Welsh
- Brwynen flodeuog
- Western Frisian
- Swanneblom
Synonyms
- Butomus caesalpini Neck.
- Butomus floridus Gaertn.
- Butomus scutariensis Rohlena
- Butomus umbellatus f. albiflorus F.Fromm
- Butomus umbellatus f. minor Bolzon
- Butomus umbellatus f. natans V.V.Petrovsky
- Butomus umbellatus f. submersus Glück
- Butomus umbellatus f. terrestris Glück
- Butomus umbellatus f. umbellatus
- Butomus umbellatus var. minor Ledeb.
- Butomus umbellatus var. parviflorus Buchenau
- Butomus umbellatus var. scutariensis Rohlena
- Butomus umbellatus var. vallisneriifolia Sagorski ex Asch. & Graebn.
- Butomus umbellatus var. vallisneriifolius Sagorski
- Butomus vulgaris Gueldenst.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.