Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Typha latifolia
FAMILY
Typhaceae
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.
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
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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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 jkm220503_7527
May Greenville County SC
Bald Rock Heritage Preserve
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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
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
1937
Forb
Perennial
Monoecious
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common
Look for it in fresh waters of ponds, lakes, ditches, marshes, including tidal freshwater marshes, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Aquatic
...Wet
LEAVES:
Simple
RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomatous
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pistillate spike: Green becoming brown
Staminate spike: Yellowish (the two usually running together)
Unisexual
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p239
- Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee p184
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p410
- Southern Appalachian Wildflowers p197
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p480
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry p099
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p137
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p003
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p350
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p403
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p001