Pass by any lake, pond, river, or marsh that has been left to Mother Nature's discretion and you'll find cattails (Typha latifolia). Ask anyone responsible for maintaining these same areas as part of ...

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 ...

Agricultural runoff creates nitrogen and phosphorus "super-fertilizer" conditions that allow native cattails to form dense monocultures, displacing diverse wetland communities Hybrid cattail spreads ...

A few people have written lately asking how to get rid of cattails in the wet areas of their landscapes, including reader J.P., who says they are spreading into the tree line. Of the three species of ...

Cattails, typha angustifolia (narrow leaf) or typha latifolia (broad leaf), have a distinct look at the edge of ponds and are wetland plants. The flower head is a spike and shaped like a long cylinder ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- You would not expect to see mosquito control crews out and about while there is still snow and ice on the ground -- but they are. Crews from the Metropolitan Mosquito Control ...

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 ...

ROSEAU RIVER WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, Minn. — The contrast told the story. Part of the wall of cattails on the eastern edge of this massive wildlife management area had been sprayed by helicopter a ...

Native cattails serve important ecological functions in North American wetlands, providing nesting habitat for marsh birds and filtering nutrients from water. However, when nutrient pollution disrupts ...