Schoenoplectus (club-rush [Old World species], bulrush or tule [New World species]) is a genus of plants in the sedge family with a cosmopolitan distribution.[1][2][3] Note that the name bulrush is also applied to species in the unrelated genus Typha as well as to other sedges. The genus Schoenoplectus was formerly considered part of Scirpus, but recent phylogenetic data shows that they are not closely related.
Schoenoplectus americanus (Pers.) Volkart ex Schinz & R. Keller – Chairmaker's bulrush, Olney's bulrush – Much of Western Hemisphere from Alaska to Argentina including West Indies; also New Zealand
Schoenoplectus californicus (C.A.Mey.) Steud. – California bulrush, giant bulrush (Americas) – southern United States; California,[4] Oregon; West Indies; Latin America from Mexico to Chile and Argentina; Falkland Islands; Easter Island
Schoenoplectus × carinatus (Sm.) Palla – Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Central Asia, Himalayas (hybrid S. lacustris × S. triqueter)
Schoenoplectus × contortus (Eames) S.G.Sm. – widely scattered locations in United States (hybrid S. americanus × S. pungens)
Schoenoplectus corymbosus (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) J.Raynal in B.Peyre de Fabregues & J.P.Lebrun – widespread across much of Africa; Spain, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, India, Pakistan
Schoenoplectus × kuekenthalianus (Junge) D.H.Kent – Great Britain; Ontario, Quebec, Oregon, Minnesota, New York, Vermont (hybrid S. tabernaemontana × S. triqueter)
Schoenoplectus lacustris – Common club-rush, bulrush – Europe and Asia from Portugal to Sakhalin; North Africa; southern Africa; Eritrea, Yemen
Schoenoplectus litoralis (Schrad.) Palla – central and southern Europe; northern and central Africa; Comoros; Madagascar; southern Asia from Turkey and Saudi Arabia to China
Schoenoplectus pungens – Sharp club-rush, three-square bulrush – widespread across North and South America, central Europe, Australia, New Zealand; apparently absent from Asia and Africa
