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Cattails have been described as the grocery store of the wild because every part of the plant is edible. During the growing season, three of these parts -- shoots, flowers and pollen -- provide easily ...

The plant: Where I grew up in Connecticut, cattails edged ponds where I’d watch salamanders gliding just under the water’s surface. Each fall, along with dried corn stalks and burnt-orange pumpkins, ...

Claim to fame: Cattails are one of the best-known aquatic plants in Missouri and throughout much of North America. These tall, shallow-water plants with their familiar brown cylindrical seed-heads can ...

Cattails are the iconic swamp plant; most of us know that when we see cattails growing along a road or at the end of a meadow there will be the squishy muck of a marsh beneath. In the depths of winter ...

Cattails seem to be the proverbial thorn in the side of landowners with either wetlands or ponds. But are cattails worthy of the distaste they receive? As with anything in nature, cattails have a ...

When it comes to cattails, I thought I had the subject pretty well covered. I had led many field trips to cattail marshes and conducted wetland seminars on the subject. And yet, totally by accident, I ...

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Two species of cattail reeds, the common cattail (Typha latifolia) and the narrow-leaved cattail (Typha angustifolia), were once common in the wetlands in and around Staten ...

They caught my attention on one of my drives through the Whitewater valley earlier this winter. With a recent snowfall, the thousands of brown heads stood out with caps of white. Cattails are one of ...

Winterberry, red and yellow twig dogwoods ... what could possibly be next on nature's list of naturally grown Christmas decor? I'm sure you've driven by them time and time again. I know I had and then ...