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 ...

Most readers have seen cattails — those wetland plants with long narrow leaves and brown sausage-shaped fruits, which grow in two-parted spikes, small green male flowers above and separated by a gap ...

One of the more common wetland plants in our area that everyone seems to know are cattails. The scientific nomenclature for the common or broad leaf cattail is Typha latifolia. A now very common, ...

The common cattail of the typha genus is one of the world’s most ubiquitous plants. Found on every continent except Antarctica, cattails are also among the most useful wild plants to humans. With its ...

In March I wrote about exploring three beaver ponds at my grandparent’s old farm property in New Hampshire. With the late winter ground and water still frozen it was easy for me to explore the edges ...

In areas heavily impacted by pollution, researchers from the University of Cincinnati have detected significant genetic diversity among common cattails. Their findings provide evidence that cattails ...

Marshes ringed with cattails provide entertaining viewing opportunities in spring, when redwing blackbirds, yellow-headed blackbirds, Canada geese, mallards and many other bird species are nesting ...