As the leaves come down, we begin to notice plants such as cattails that will persist into winter and perhaps until spring. Native cattails have long provided food, shelter, medicine, and more to ...

Sometimes disliked because of their invasive dominance in lakes or wetlands, widespread cattail plants are also useful in many ways. Several parts of the plants are edible and nutritious, providing ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. PAUL -- Walk along most any lake or wetland in southern Minnesota and chances are you'll see lots of cattails. But look closer, and you may not like what's happening. Where native cattails once ...

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 ...

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 ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees? In this ...

As the leaves come down, we begin to notice plants such as cattails that will persist into winter and perhaps until spring. Native cattails have long provided food, shelter, medicine, and more to ...

I spent too much time this past weekend trying to get a great action shot of the red-winged blackbirds at my neighbor’s pond. You know how sometimes you can’t see the forest for the trees? In this ...