Butomus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{automatic taxobox | name = Flowering rush | image = Butomus umbellatus - harilik luigelill Keilas.jpg | image_caption = ''Butomus umbellatus'' | parent_authority = Mirb.<ref name="apgiii">{{Citation |last=Angiosperm Phylogeny Group |year=2009 |title=An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=161 |issue=2 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x |doi-access=free |hdl=10654/18083 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> | taxon = Butomus | authority = L. | type_species = ''Butomus umbellatus'' | type_species_authority = L. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text | range_map = Butomaceae range.jpg }} thumb|{{center|''Butomus umbellatus''<ref>illustration from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz 1885, Gera, Germany</ref>}}

'''''Butomus''''' is the only known genus in the plant family '''Butomaceae''', native to Europe and Asia. It is considered invasive in some parts of the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialplants/herbaceous/floweringrush.html|title=Flowering rush - Invasive species: Minnesota DNR|website=www.dnr.state.mn.us|language=en|access-date=2018-02-06}}</ref>

== Taxonomy == The '''Butomaceae''' family has been recognized by most taxonomists as a plant family; it is sometimes called the "flowering-rush family".

The APG II system, of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system, 1998), also recognizes such a family, and places it in the order Alismatales, in the clade monocots. At the ranks of family and order, this is the same placement as in the Cronquist system. However, Cronquist assumed a much smaller order and assigned the order to subclass Alismatidae, in class Liliopsida [=monocotyledons].

== Species == The family counts one species, ''Butomus umbellatus'', or two according to some authorities. *''Butomus junceus'' {{small|Turcz.}} (synonym ''Butomus umbellatus'' var. ''junceus'' {{small|(Turcz.) Micheli}}) – Siberia, Mongolia, and Tajikistan<ref>{{cite web |title=''Butomus junceus'' Turcz. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:58287-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> *''Butomus umbellatus'' <small>L.</small> - China, Central Asia, Indian subcontinent, Middle East, Russia, Europe; naturalized in North America<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200024717|title=Butomus umbellatus in Flora of China @ efloras.org|website=www.efloras.org|access-date=2017-01-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10135|title=Butomaceae in Flora of North America @ efloras.org|website=www.efloras.org|access-date=2017-01-31}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * [http://delta-intkey.com/angio/www/butomace.htm Butomaceae] in L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz (1992 onwards) ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20101213041459/http://delta-intkey.com/angio/ The families of flowering plants:] descriptions, illustrations, identification, information retrieval''. Version: 27 April 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20070103200438/http://delta-intkey.com/. * [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1200&taxon_id=10135 ''Monocot families'' (United States Department of Agriculture)] * [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=50234&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock National Center for Biotechnology Information Taxonomy Browser] * [http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Butomaceae links at CSDL, Texas A&M University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012120154/http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/cgi/gateway_family?fam=Butomaceae |date=2008-10-12 }} {{commons category|Butomus}} *[http://greif.uni-greifswald.de/floragreif/?fam=Butomaceae&gen=&spec=&flora_search=taxon Butomaceae of Mongolia in FloraGREIF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226222243/http://greif.uni-greifswald.de/floragreif/?fam=Butomaceae&gen=&spec=&flora_search=taxon |date=2012-02-26 }}

Category:Alismatales