cattail

How To Use cattail In A Sentence

• Cattails also “travel” by sending out a horizontal stem called a rhizome not far from the parent plant. The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
• The Glumiflorae are the grasses, sedges, rushes, and cattails, and are easily recognized by their ‘grassy’ appearance.
• A small pond was the home of cattails, small fish and other critters and plants.
• The little island seemed to float before her in the purply twilight, partly masked by a stand of reeds and cattails.
• Of and about the animal kingdom are: deer and camel grass, elephant and tiger grass, kangaroo grass, fox and dog grass, cattail, rattail, mouse and mousetail grass, and, just for luck, rabbit foot. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1
• Digging deeper, he would have found long-dormant seeds of marsh sedges and the sleeping rhizomes of tules and cattails.
• Nests are made of grass, and are usually lashed to cattails, bulrushes, or other emergent vegetation close to the water.
• A red-winged blackbird swaying on last year's cattail in a gully. 52449_CLARA
• The herbaceous vegetation would have been rich and diverse, including, for example, cattail, buttonbush, numerous sedges, grasses and rushes, and bushy willows and alder.
• The female builds the nest, which is a bulky, open cup made of leaves, stems, and grass, and lashed to cattails, bulrushes, or other plants growing over the water.