Cattail is a unique perennial with its easily identifiable cylindrical spikes. Cattail can grow up to 2 metres or more.
Cattails
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Cattails have many tiny flowers growing at the top of the stem. The upper part, with the male flowers, eventually looses the flowers, leaving only a bare stem. The female flowers are located on the lower, brown portion (15-20 cm.)
The Cattail has dry oval seeds about 1 mm. long that will float and they have long hairs on the base with fluffy appearance.
The Red-winged Blackbird's nest is built in cattails, rushes, grasses, sedge, or in alder or willow bushes.
