Typha Latifolia
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| close up picture of the cattail flower |
Most people are familiar with cattails. We saw these cattails around many of the ponds at the Pond Lab. They are quite tall-around seven feet right now. The leaves are tall and green. The female portion of the flower is the stiff, brown tube-like object; the yellow part is the male portion of the flower. The flowers eventually turn to fluff, which is used by animals and birds to create nests. Animals also hide in the cattails and use them as shelter.
The cattails were thicker in some ponds than in others. The areas with more dense cattails seemed to have a greater number of red-winged blackbird nests.
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| Cattails surround the ponds at the Pond Lab. |
Resource: http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/common_cattail.htm
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