The authors report arsenic phytoremediation by the common reed, Phragmites ‎australis (P. australis) The plants for this study were collected from five sampling sites ‎in the Chelpo contaminated area of Khorasan Province in Northeast Iran. P. australis ‎was found to be a hyper-accumulator plant. Because of the potential for this plant to ‎be used as an agent to remove arsenic from a polluted environment, P australis has a ‎considerable enrichment factor. Thus, in the P. australis accumulation model ‎following the order of root>rhizome>stem>leaves, the examination of P. australis for ‎the phytoremediation process indicates that this species can cope with arsenic ‎remediation from certain polluted soils. ‎

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