Aquatic
...Wet
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read Edible Wild Plants: Cattails from Lytton Musselman and the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
Learn more about Common Cattail from the Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Typha latifolia
FAMILY
Typhaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Typha latifolia
FAMILY
Typhaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 019-01-001:
Typha latifolia
FAMILY
Typhaceae
COMMON NAME:
Common Cattail, Broadleaf Cattail
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_tyla_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm0505d_03
May Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Fuzzy, brown cylindric spikes (cattails) persist into winter, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm160504_472
May Jackson County NC
Pulley Park
Leaves linear, erect, thick, sheathing the base of the stem, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm140711_832
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Leaves up to 1" wide and 10' tall, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm140711_832b
July Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
Female flowers in brown cylindrical spike; male spike above and contiguous, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm140809_428
August Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail