The 34 species accepted: northern and central Mexico as far south as Michoacán; Clipperton Island. •
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 annamicus (Raymond) T.Koyama – Vietnam •
Schoenoplectus californicus (
C.A.Mey.)
Steud. – California bulrush, giant bulrush (Americas) – southern United States; California, 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 confusus (N.E.Br.) Lye – eastern and southern Africa •
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 decipiens (Nees) J.Raynal – southern Africa •
Schoenoplectus deltarum (Schuyler) Soják – widely scattered locations in southern and central United States •
Schoenoplectus ehrenbergii (Boeckeler) Soják – European Russia, Gansu, Hebei, Ningxia, Shandong, Xinjiang, Kazakhstan •
Schoenoplectus etuberculatus (Steud.) Soják – southeastern United States from Delaware to Texas – isolated populations in Missouri and Rhode Island •
Schoenoplectus halophilus Papch. & Laktionov – southern European Russia •
Schoenoplectus heptangularis Cabezas & Jim.Mejías – Bioko •
Schoenoplectus heterochaetus (
Chase)
Soják – Slender bulrush – Canada; northern and central United States, California •
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 monocephalus (J.Q.He) S.Yun Liang & S.R.Zhang – Anhui region of China •
Schoenoplectus muricinux (C.B.Clarke) J.Raynal – central and southern Africa •
Schoenoplectus muriculatus (Kük.) Browning – southern Africa •
Schoenoplectus nipponicus (Makino) Soják – Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Russian Far East •
Schoenoplectus × oblongus (T.Koyama) Soják – widely scattered locations in United States and Canada (hybrid
S. acutus ×
S. tabernaemontani) •
Schoenoplectus paludicola (Kunth) Palla – South Africa •
Schoenoplectus pulchellus (Kunth) J.Raynal – Lesotho, South Africa •
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 •
Schoenoplectus rhodesicus (Podlech) Lye – Zaire, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe •
Schoenoplectus scirpoides (Schrad.) Browning – eastern and southern Africa •
Schoenoplectus × steinmetzii (Fernald) S.G.Sm. – Maine and Wisconsin (hybrid
S. heterochaetus ×
S. tabernaemontani) •
Schoenoplectus subterminalis (Torr.) Soják – eastern and western US and Canada, though mostly absent in central regions •
Schoenoplectus subulatus (Vahl) Lye – scattered distribution across Africa, Asia, Australia, and some Pacific Island •
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani (C.C.Gmel.) Palla – virtually cosmopolitan •
Schoenoplectus torreyi (Olney) Palla – eastern Canada, northeastern United States •
Schoenoplectus triqueter (L.) Palla – Europe, Asia and North Africa from Ireland and Canary Islands to Japan; naturalized in Oregon and Washington ==References==