Table 4.
Bioaccumulation of PFAS compounds by herbaceous plant species [Adapted from Huff et al. (2020)].
| Plant species | Bioaccumulated PFAS compounds | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PFPeA | PFHxA | PFOA | PFBS | PFHxS | PFOS | |||||||
| μg | % | μg | % | μg | % | μg | % | μg | % | μg | % | |
| Amaranthus tricolor | 446 | 30.9 | 153 | 8.1 | 66 | 7.7 | 4 | 0.4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Brassica juncea | 114 | 11.8 | 72 | 5.7 | 15 | 2.7 | 9 | 1.7 | 8 | 1.6 | 4 | 0.7 |
| Cynodon dactylon | 434 | 22.6 | 427 | 16.9 | 55 | 4.9 | 156 | 14.1 | 51 | 4.8 | 20 | 2 |
| Equisetum hyemale | 759 | 39.5 | 557 | 22.1 | 36 | 3.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 7 | 0.6 | 4 | 0.4 |
| Festuca rubra | 717 | 37.4 | 652 | 25.9 | 122 | 10.8 | 224 | 20.3 | 141 | 13.2 | 39 | 3.8 |
| Helianthus annuus | 52 | 5.5 | 8 | 0.6 | 4 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.4 | 3 | 0.6 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Schedonorus arundinaceus | 807 | 42 | 696 | 27.6 | 60 | 5.3 | 262 | 23.8 | 92 | 8.6 | 14 | 1.4 |
| Trifolium incarnatum | 29 | 3.1 | 11 | 0.8 | 50 | 8.9 | 13 | 2.3 | 10 | 1.9 | 1 | 0.2 |