Common or Broad-leaved Cattail

Common or Broad-leaved Cattail

Typha latifolia

Cattail Family - Typhaceae

Leaves about 1 inch wide, flat and elongated so that the plant height varies from 3 to 9 feet. (Photographed - July)

Compact, minute greenish-brown flowers forming a cylindrical spike with the upper half composed of staminate (male) and the lower portion pistillate (female) flowers at the end of a tall stiff

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