Acorus gramineus
Also known as: Acorus gramineus flavomarginatus, Acorus gramineus gramineus, Acorus gramineus japonica, Acorus gramineus japonicus, Acorus gramineus macrospadiceus, Acorus gramineus pusillus, Acorus humilis, Acorus macrospadiceus, Acorus pusillus, Acorus tatarinowii flavomarginatus, Acorus xiangyeus, Acorus ziangyeus
Species profile
- Accepted name
- Acorus gramineus Aiton Species
- Common names
- Slender Sweet-Flag, Dwarf Sedge, Grass-leaf sweet flag, Grass-leaved Sweet-Flag, Grassleaf Sweet Flag, grassleaf sweetflag, Grassy-leaved Sweet Flag, Japanese Rush, Japanese Sweet Flag
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Division
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Acorales
- Family
- Acoraceae
- Genus
- Acorus
- Habitat
- Terrestrial, Freshwater; Freshwater-terrestrial
- Distribution
- Galápagos Islands; Southern Asia; Bangladesh; Cambodia; China South-Central
- Published in
- Hort. Kew. 1: 474 (1789)
Media and observations
?Cambodia, India (north), Japan, Korea, ?Laos, Myanmar, ?Philippines, Thailand, ?Vietnam. (An updated checklist of aquatic plants of Myanmar and Thailand)
Inland surface water habitats (C level 1) (DAISIE - Inventory of alien invasive species in Europe)
GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-10-05. Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/2873807 https://www.gbif.org/species/2873807
Common and trade names from InterAquaristik product data.
· Last updated Oct 5, 2026, 3:30 AM