Claim to fame: Cattails are one of the best-known aquatic plants in Missouri and throughout much of North America. These tall, shallow-water plants with their familiar brown cylindrical seed-heads can ...

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 we hear the word pollen, many of us — including me — think of that nasty, airborne stuff produced by plants that causes itchy eyes, runny nose and repetitive sneezing. I suffer from seasonal ...

Cattails are the iconic swamp plant; most of us know that when we see cattails growing along a road or at the end of a meadow there will be the squishy muck of a marsh beneath. In the depths of winter ...

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 ...

Don’t worry, this dish contains no actual cattails. Cattail is an English name for a kind of water reed grown around the Jinan area of Shandong. It forms the basis of one of the town’s most famous ...

As fall’s reds and oranges fade away, cattails add their brown velvety spikes to the edge of lakes and wetlands. Cattail bouquets can create rustic, autumn decor, but this plant offers many year-round ...