Eurasian Sweet-Flag
Acorus calamus
Acorus calamus (also called sweet flag or calamus, among many common names) is a tall perennial wetland monocot of the Acoraceae family, in the genus Acorus.
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 old herbals & bestiaries
Garden of Health
1507 · p.10
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.44
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.282
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.264
Illustrated Herbal Primer
Chen Jiamo (陳嘉謨) · 1628 · p.65
The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.143
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 18)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.6
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
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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 82306.