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 ...

I was at a home a number of years ago where I was invited by a member of the Kiwanis, an excellent service group, to see how this gentleman had worked with the conditions in his yard to provide a ...

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 ...

Invasive hybrid cattails are removed to evaluate impacts on fish habitat. Researchers remove invasive hybrid cattails from six test sites to evaluate the impacts on water quality and fish habitat. The ...

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 ...

Cattails I did not see coming. Abundant in certain places and thoroughly absent in other places, cattails suffer from being so plain and so familiar that they become invisible. At marshes we tend to ...

As fall’s reds and oranges fade away, cattails add their brown velvety spikes to the edge of lakes and wetlands. Cattail bouquets can create rustic, autumn decor, but this plant offers many year-round ...

Voyageurs National Park staff seeks public comments about an environmental assessment that involves the removal of hybrid cattails and restoration of native marsh plant communities in the park. Typha ...