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Internal ID UUID6440269b21cd7900938454
Scientific name Triglochin palustris
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl. : 338 (1753)

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Common products:
- Fresh young leaves and shoots harvested in early spring, before flowering, are collected for culinary use. The tender, low‑fiber foliage is consumed raw in salads or lightly cooked as a potherb. It is valued by foragers for its mild flavor and tender texture. Because it is not cultivated commercially, its use relies on wild harvesting. The plant is collected by hand, as mechanical harvesting would disturb its fragile rhizome system.

Food and beverages (non-medicinal):
- The shoots can be eaten raw, sliced into salads, or blanched and added to soups, stews, and sautéed dishes. Preparation typically involves brief cooking to preserve texture; the plant is not used for medicinal teas or extracts. They are occasionally served as a seasonal side dish.

Properties relevant to use:
- Leaves are thin‑cuticled, with high water content typical of herbaceous foliage and low lignified tissue, resulting in a soft mouthfeel. Chemical analysis of wild Triglochin palustris reports modest protein content. The species tolerates brackish soils; the edible leaves do not retain noticeable saltiness.

Standards and regulation:
- No species‑specific food standards exist for T. palustris. Its use as a wild vegetable falls under general food‑safety statutes where it is harvested or sold. In the European Union, the General Food Law (Regulation (EC) No 178/2002) and hygiene rules (Regulation (EC) No 852/2004) apply to wild‑collected greens; traceability and hygiene controls are required. In the United Kingdom, the Food Standards Agency advises accurate identification, avoidance of polluted sites, and compliance with the Food Safety Act 1990. In the United States, commercial sale of wild‑foraged plants is governed by the FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act and state‑level regulations.

Sustainability and sourcing:
- The plant reproduces vegetatively through rhizomes, forming dense mats in salt marshes and inland saline soils. Harvesting is limited to the young shoots before flowering to avoid damaging the rhizome network and preserve habitat for invertebrates and waterfowl. Because commercial cultivation is absent, supply depends on wild collection, and monitoring of population density is recommended to maintain ecological integrity.

Synonyms Top

Scientific name Authority First published in
Triglochin komarovii Lipsch. & Pavlov Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. , n.s., 45: 152 (1936)
Triglochin palustris var. crassiculmis Tzvelev Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 21: 241 (1984)
Triglochin asiatica var. komarovii (Lipsch. & V.N.Pavlov) Tzvelev Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 21: 241 (1984)
Triglochin palustris f. fernaldiana J.Rousseau Canad. J. Res., Sect. C, Bot. Sci. 28: 245 (1952)
Abbotia palustris Raf. New Fl. 1: 37 (1836)
Abbotia pumila Raf. New Fl. 1: 37 (1836)
Juncago palustris (L.) Moench Methodus 644. 1794 (1794)
Triglochin andina Phil. Anales Univ. Chile 43: 538 (1873)
Triglochin chilensis Meyen Observ. Bot. 1: 354 (1834)
Triglochin fonticola Phil. Fl. Atacam. : 49 (1860)
Triglochin himalensis Royle Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. : 402 (1840)
Triglochin juncea Gilib. Exerc. Phyt. 2: 501 (1792)
Tristemon palustris Raf. Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 4: 192 (1819)
Triglochin palustris var. salina Mert. & W.D.J.Koch Deutschl. Fl. ed. 3, 2: 627. 1826
Triglochin crassiculmis (Tzvelev) Prob. Fl. Ross. Dal'nego Vostoka : 267 (2006)
Triglochin palustris f. robustior Sennen Exsicc. (Pl. Espagne) 1915: n.° 2456 (1916)

Common names Top

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Language Common/alternative name
English marsh arrowgrass
Belarusian Трынасеннік балотны
Belarusian Трынасеннік Камарова
Belarusian Балотніца
Bulgarian блатен триостреник
Catalan troscart des marais
Czech bařička bahenní
Danish kær-trehage
German sumpf-dreizack
German troscart des marais
Estonian soo-õisluht
Finnish hentosuolake
French troscart des marais
Upper Sorbian tonidłowa bažička
Hungarian mocsári kígyófű
Icelandic mýrasauðlaukur
Japanese ホソバノシバナ
Lithuanian troscart des marais
Lithuanian pelkinė narytžolė
Latvian purva āžloks
Norwegian Bokmål myrsauløk
Dutch moeraszoutgras
Norwegian Nynorsk myrsaulauk
Polish Świbka błotna
Russian Триостренник Комарова
Russian Триостренник болотный
Serbian Барски трозубац
Swedish troscart des marais
Swedish kärrsälting
Ukrainian Тризубець болотний
Chinese 海韭菜
Chinese 水麥冬
Chinese 水麦冬

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

Legend for the distribution data:
- Doubtful data
- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
  • Asia-temperate
    • Caucasus
      • North Caucasus
      • Transcaucasus
    • China
      • China North-central
      • China South-central
      • Inner Mongolia
      • Manchuria
      • Qinghai
      • Tibet
      • Xinjiang
    • Eastern Asia
      • Japan
      • Korea
    • Middle Asia
      • Kazakhstan
      • Kirgizstan
      • Tadzhikistan
      • Turkmenistan
      • Uzbekistan
    • Mongolia
      • Mongolia
    • Russian Far East
      • Amur
      • Kamchatka
      • Khabarovsk
      • Kuril Islands
      • Magadan
      • Primorye
      • Sakhalin
    • Siberia
      • Altay
      • Buryatiya
      • Chita
      • Irkutsk
      • Krasnoyarsk
      • Tuva
      • West Siberia
      • Yakutskiya
    • Western Asia
      • Afghanistan
      • Iran
      • Iraq
      • Palestine
      • Turkey
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • East Himalaya
      • Nepal
      • Pakistan
      • West Himalaya
  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Baltic States
      • Belarus
      • Central European Russia
      • East European Russia
      • Krym
      • North European Russia
      • Northwest European Russia
      • South European Russia
      • Ukraine
    • Middle Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Poland
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Denmark
      • Finland
      • Føroyar
      • Great Britain
      • Iceland
      • Ireland
      • Norway
      • Sweden
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France
      • Portugal
      • Spain
  • Northern America
    • Eastern Canada
      • Labrador
      • New Brunswick
      • Newfoundland
      • Nova Scotia
      • Ontario
      • Prince Edward Island
      • Québec
    • North-central U.S.A.
      • Illinois
      • Iowa
      • Minnesota
      • Nebraska
      • North Dakota
      • South Dakota
      • Wisconsin
    • Northeastern U.S.A.
      • Indiana
      • Maine
      • Michigan
      • New Hampshire
      • New York
      • Ohio
      • Pennsylvania
      • Rhode Island
    • Northwestern U.S.A.
      • Colorado
      • Idaho
      • Montana
      • Oregon
      • Washington
      • Wyoming
    • South-central U.S.A.
      • New Mexico
    • Southwestern U.S.A.
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Nevada
      • Utah
    • Subarctic America
      • Alaska
      • Aleutian Islands
      • Greenland
      • Northwest Territorie
      • Nunavut
      • Yukon
    • Western Canada
      • Alberta
      • British Columbia
      • Manitoba
      • Saskatchewan
  • Southern America
    • Southern South America
      • Argentina Northeast
      • Argentina Northwest
      • Argentina South
      • Chile Central
      • Chile North
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000770196
Canadensys 6349
USDA Plants TRPA28
Tropicos 17000003
INPN 127547
Flora of Italy 6702
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:603552-1
The Plant List kew-308924
Plantarium 39077
Open Tree Of Life 269404
Observations.org 7579
NCBI Taxonomy 403040
Nature Serve 2.161159
IUCN Red List 164152
IPNI 603552-1
iNaturalist 79436
GBIF 2865280
Freebase /m/09g6j__
WisFlora 5275
EPPO TRLPA
EOL 1089028
Elurikkus 320178
Calflora (Californian flora) 8115
USDA GRIN 408553
Wikipedia Triglochin_palustris

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_964197745.1 laTriPals1.1 Chromosome WELLCOME SANGER INSTITUTE 2024-07-06 32 417.22 Mb

Scientific Literature Top

Below are displayed the latest 15 articles published in PMC (PubMed Central®) and other sources (DOI number only)!
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Paludiculture can support biodiversity conservation in rewetted fen peatlands Martens HR, Laage K, Eickmanns M, Drexler A, Heinsohn V, Wegner N, Muster C, Diekmann M, Seeber E, Kreyling J, Michalik P, Tanneberger F Sci Rep 23-Oct-2023
PMCID:PMC10593922
doi:10.1038/s41598-023-44481-0
PMID:37872150
Halophytic Clonal Plant Species: Important Functional Aspects for Existence in Heterogeneous Saline Habitats Ievinsh G Plants (Basel) 21-Apr-2023
PMCID:PMC10144567
doi:10.3390/plants12081728
PMID:37111952
Geochemical properties of blue carbon sediments through an elevation gradient: study of an anthropogenically impacted coastal lagoon Grey A, Costeira R, Lorenzo E, O’Kane S, McCaul MV, McCarthy T, Jordan SF, Allen CC, Kelleher BP Biogeochemistry 08-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC9971090
doi:10.1007/s10533-022-00974-0
PMID:36873378
Experimental climate change impacts on Baltic coastal wetland plant communities Bergamo TF, Ward RD, Joyce CB, Villoslada M, Sepp K Sci Rep 27-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9701761
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-24913-z
PMID:36437266
Scrub encroachment promotes biodiversity in temperate European wetlands under eutrophic conditions Brunbjerg AK, Fløjgaard C, Frøslev TG, Andersen DK, Bruun HH, Dalby L, Goldberg I, Lehmann LJ, Moeslund JE, Ejrnæs R Ecol Evol 01-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9627074
doi:10.1002/ece3.9445
PMID:36340817
Effects of Land Use on the Soil Microbial Community in the Songnen Grassland of Northeast China Liu G, Bai Z, Cui G, He W, Kongling Z, Ji G, Gong H, Li D Front Microbiol 08-Jul-2022
PMCID:PMC9307977
doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.865184
PMID:35879955
Formalized classification of ephemeral wetland vegetation (Isoëto-Nanojuncetea class) in Poland (Central Europe) Kącki Z, Łysko A, Dajdok Z, Kobierski P, Krawczyk R, Nowak A, Rosadziński S, Popiela AA PeerJ 10-Aug-2021
PMCID:PMC8362674
doi:10.7717/peerj.11703
PMID:34434642
South-Siberian mountain mires: Perspectives on a potentially vulnerable remote source of biodiversity Volkova II, Callaghan TV, Volkov IV, Chernova NA, Volkova AI Ambio 09-Jul-2021
PMCID:PMC8269984
doi:10.1007/s13280-021-01596-w
PMID:34244968
Chemical Diversity of Plant Cyanogenic Glycosides: An Overview of Reported Natural Products Yulvianti M, Zidorn C Molecules 30-Jan-2021
PMCID:PMC7866531
doi:10.3390/molecules26030719
PMID:33573160
Rediscovery of Cyperus flavescens (Cyperaceae) on the northeast periphery of its range in Europe Marciniuk P, Marciniuk J, Łysko A, Krajewski Ł, Chudecka J, Skrzyczyńska J, Popiela AA PeerJ 14-Sep-2020
PMCID:PMC7497605
doi:10.7717/peerj.9837
PMID:32983639
Changes in behavior are unable to disrupt a trophic cascade involving a specialist herbivore and its food plant Lohman MG, Riecke TV, Acevedo CR, Person BT, Schmutz JA, Uher‐Koch BD, Sedinger JS Ecol Evol 08-Apr-2019
PMCID:PMC6509370
doi:10.1002/ece3.5118
PMID:31110679
Can mowing restore boreal rich-fen vegetation in the face of climate change? Ross LC, Speed JD, Øien DI, Grygoruk M, Hassel K, Lyngstad A, Moen A PLoS One 19-Feb-2019
PMCID:PMC6380559
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0211272
PMID:30779747
Variations in Species-Level N:P Stoichiometry of Charophytes and Aquatic Angiosperms on the Tibetan Plateau Wang Z, Wu Z, Wang Y, Yu D Front Plant Sci 22-Jun-2018
PMCID:PMC6024015
doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.00870
PMID:29988412
Epizoochorous dispersal by ungulates depends on fur, grooming and social interactions Liehrmann O, Jégoux F, Guilbert M, Isselin‐Nondedeu F, Saïd S, Locatelli Y, Baltzinger C Ecol Evol 03-Jan-2018
PMCID:PMC5792512
doi:10.1002/ece3.3768
PMID:29435234
Vascular plant biodiversity of the lower Coppermine River valley and vicinity (Nunavut, Canada): an annotated checklist of an Arctic flora Saarela JM, Sokoloff PC, Bull RD PeerJ 31-Jan-2017
PMCID:PMC5300018
doi:10.7717/peerj.2835
PMID:28194307

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