grasses, sedges, cattails, and allies
Poales
The Poales are a large order of flowering plants in the monocotyledons, and includes families of plants such as the grasses, bromeliads, and sedges. Sixteen plant families are currently recognized by botanists to be part of Poales.
14 branches of this order, most-observed first
grasses
familyPoaceae
Sedges
familyCyperaceae
Rushes and Allies
familyJuncaceae
Bromeliads
familyBromeliaceae
bulrushes, cattails, and allies
familyTyphaceae
Restiads
familyRestionaceae
Pipeworts
familyEriocaulaceae
yellow-eyed grasses
familyXyridaceae
bushcane family
familyFlagellariaceae
Thurniaceae
familyThurniaceae
Mayacaceae
familyMayacaceae
Rapateaceae
familyRapateaceae
sedge-rush family
familyEcdeiocoleaceae
Joinvilleaceae
familyJoinvilleaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Poales in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47162.