Scirpus lacustris, Schoenoplectus lacustris,
Common Tule, True bulrush, אגמון האגם
 
Scientific name:  Scirpus lacustris
Synonym name:  Schoenoplectus lacustris
Common name:  Common Tule, True bulrush
Hebrew name:   אגמון האגם
Family:  Cyperaceae, גמאיים

Scirpus lacustris, Schoenoplectus lacustris, Common Tule, True bulrush, אגמון האגם
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Life form:  helophyte
Leaves:  Alternate, entire, smooth
Flowers:  Brown
Flowering Period:   April, May, June, July, August, September, October
Habitat:   Humid habitats
Distribution:  Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Shrub-steppes
Chorotype, טיפוס התפוצה:   Med - Euro-Siberian
Summer shedding:  Perenating


Derivation of the botanical name:
Scirpus, the Latin name for "bulrush".
lacustris, lacus, "lake, pond, pool; reservoir, tank", and ustris, ester adjective suffix for nouns: origin or habitat; meaning: growing by lakes or ponds.
The word "Tule" derives from the indigenous Mexican word tullin (Nahuatl=bulrush), and was first applied by the early settlers from New Spain who recognized the marsh plants in the Central Valley of California as similar to those in the marshes around Mexico City.
Comandante Pedro Fages, while hunting for deserters in 1772, discovered a great lake surrounded by marshes and filled with rushes which he named "Los Tules" (the tules).

Scirpus lacustris has a round stem.