Domestic cats are common in Leon County. Today’s couch ornament is a far cry from its immediate ancestors which were valued for their pest control skills. These feline predators prowled barns, ...

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 ...

When it comes to cattails, I thought I had the subject pretty well covered. I had led many field trips to cattail marshes and conducted wetland seminars on the subject. And yet, totally by accident, I ...

Most readers have seen cattails — those wetland plants with long narrow leaves and brown sausage-shaped fruits, which grow in two-parted spikes, small green male flowers above and separated by a gap ...

In March I wrote about exploring three beaver ponds at my grandparent’s old farm property in New Hampshire. With the late winter ground and water still frozen it was easy for me to explore the edges ...

The common cattail of the typha genus is one of the world’s most ubiquitous plants. Found on every continent except Antarctica, cattails are also among the most useful wild plants to humans. With its ...

In areas heavily impacted by pollution, researchers from the University of Cincinnati have detected significant genetic diversity among common cattails. Their findings provide evidence that cattails ...

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 ...