Cattails

Down in the front hall, top hats glisten on a stand and canes grow like cattails from a Chinese jar. ❋ Sarah Smith (2010)

Wetter areas near the river may have black willow, black mimosa, common and giant reed, and hydrophytes such as cattails, bulrushes, and sedges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a recent post on ChangingSociety I considered the question whether households in a rural community might be able to achieve energy self-sufficiency based on the cultivation of crops such as cattails and community production of ethanol. ❋ Daniel Little (2008)

Wetlands are places of still water that support aquatic plants, such as cattails, pond lilies and cypress trees. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They prefer to nest over water on permanent prairie marshes surrounded by emergent vegetation, such as cattails and bulrushes, which provide protective cover.

I would only use the shavings if I couldn't find anything else (I usually find fluffy, fibery stuff like cattails or a dandelions). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mr. Strusinski is a food forager, rummaging through woods and rivers from Vermont to the coast of Maine to Portland to gather cattails, pineapple weed, wood sorrel and other offbeat ingredients. ❋ Sumathi Reddy (2010)

Glancing in the cattails' direction, I spotted a disturbance in the water. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

At six months, Jetta was happy to find this downed bird deep in the cattails. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Algae crowded the banks, and bullfrogs sang in the cattails. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Never have-I have been fortunate enough to find everything dead-although I thought this year I was going to loose one but after hours of searching found him dead in the middle of some cattails. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She was idly painting the pretty little ducks on the water, the cattails growing along the edge, and the— ❋ The Scent Of Jasmine (2011)

I remember fondly how they used to get into basements and line the tops of the walls when the frost was on the cattails. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The fish like the cattails but have no interest in the algae or seaweed, or whatever it is, that grows up from the bottom of the pond, creeps me out when I become entangled in it and seems to get worse every year. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)