How To Use Cattail In A Sentence
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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
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The Glumiflorae are the grasses, sedges, rushes, and cattails, and are easily recognized by their ‘grassy’ appearance.
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A small pond was the home of cattails, small fish and other critters and plants.
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The little island seemed to float before her in the purply twilight, partly masked by a stand of reeds and cattails.
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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.
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Digging deeper, he would have found long-dormant seeds of marsh sedges and the sleeping rhizomes of tules and cattails.
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Nests are made of grass, and are usually lashed to cattails, bulrushes, or other emergent vegetation close to the water.
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A red-winged blackbird swaying on last year's cattail in a gully.
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The herbaceous vegetation would have been rich and diverse, including, for example, cattail, buttonbush, numerous sedges, grasses and rushes, and bushy willows and alder.
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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.
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Brackish marsh species include giant cordgrass (Spartina cynosuroides), salt marsh bulrush, common three-square, soft-stem bulrush, broadleaf cattail, arrowhead, spider-lily, salt reedgrass, reed and arrow arum.
North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina
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Everything would be awash in pale yellow-green with cattails on the alders, and the maples trailing green seed plumes.
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Marsh vegetation consists mainly of cattail and sedges (Scirpus americana and Carex sp.), with salt marsh cordgrass occurring along creek banks.
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The nest was located at the edge of a small open pool surrounded by cattails adjacent to a sedge and sphagnum-dominated lakeside fen.
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Cattails and bulrushes will replace the invasive phragmites that have choked the waterways.
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I saw a couple of snipe fly over, and a phoebe or two hung around the edge of the cattails.
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Examples of carbonizing herbs to stop bleeding are carbonized cattail pollen, carbonized human hair, carbonized agrimony and carbonized wormwood or mugwort.
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Straw, cattails and wool are used in earth plasters; fiberglass is added to cement stucco.
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Vegetables were also dried-stems, buds, and particularly starchy roots, such as cattail, thistle, licorish fern, and various lily corms.
The Plains of Passage
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The wetland is a large sedge- and sphagnum-dominated lakeside fen and cattail marsh that supports one of the most diverse wetland bird communities in the state.
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The nest was surrounded by cattails and was constructed of year-old cattail leaves and stems.
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Straw, cattails and wool are used in earth plasters; fiberglass is added to cement stucco.
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Interspersed are areas dominated by mulefat, and low marshy areas dominated by bulrush (Scirpus sp.) and cattails (Typha sp.).
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Canvasbacks and redheads will nest over water using emergent plants, such as cattails and bulrushes.
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The most frequently emergent macrophytes used are reeds, bulrushes, cattails, rushes and sedges.
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The sediment load is settling out with the passage of time and the purifying influence of cattails and bulrushes.
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Cattail, wild rice, pickerelweed, and arrowhead are common and help support a large and diverse range of bird and fish species, among other wildlife.
Wetland
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Marshland, containing cattails, bulrushes, and other reeds, would have been limited to the borders of the wooded ridges of levees, where the water level was consistently below the surface.
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The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
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The most frequently emergent macrophytes used are reeds, bulrushes, cattails, rushes and sedges.
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The herbaceous vegetation would have been rich and diverse, including, for example, cattail, buttonbush, numerous sedges, grasses and rushes, and bushy willows and alder.
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We scour the county in her pick-up, windows down, twanging country songs at the top of our lungs and laughing while we search out wild asparagus, teazle, milkweed, cattails, sumac, and bittersweet.
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Seven dominant plant types were growing in year 15 in the created wetland: bur-reed, a variety of cattails, river bulrush and softstem bulrush, American lotus, sago pondweed and rice cutgrass.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
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The river channel meanders through wide tidal freshwater marshes of cattail and sedges (Carex spp. and Scirpus spp.), with stands of saltmarsh cordgrass along the upper banks.
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Sugar growers use huge amounts of phosphorus-based fertilizer, most of which runs off into the Everglades and promotes the growth of exotic cattails in place of the native sawgrass.
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Cattail-thronged marshes here host canvasbacks, redheads, and swans, along with buffleheads, common golden-eyes, teals, and even some bald and golden eagles.
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Plants like cattails, bulrushes, jewelweed, and the lovely cardinal flower do best with alternating wet and dry periods, and survive flooding as long as most of the leaves are out of the water.
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What he is trying to say, no no no, your green head must be shimmering in your eyes, that isn't a dude in the brush just a mishaped cattail bush, the eating is great and the ladies are easy too much action for me.
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They'd travel from one end of the pond to the other as a team, one of them separating itself from the others to investigate this cattail or that leaf while the others waited patiently, the three then resuming their peregrinations.
Swimming With the Fish
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Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud.
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In her hand was a brown "cattail," perfectly full and round.
Their Dear Little Ghost
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Cattails, dried milkweed pods, and other weeds may be gathered and painted for decorations.
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Burst cattails and grass line the edge; the water is thick, a deep green murk, a beautiful green cocktail.
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A red-winged blackbird swaying on last year's cattail in a gully.
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By repeatedly removing the leaves on cattail plants, the food supply in the underground tuber will be depleted and the plant will eventually die.
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The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
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As the lake recedes, it gives an increasing foothold to ‘emergents’ - cattails, bulrushes and other plant species that grow at the water's edge.
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Areas within the pheasant management counties that contain adequate winter cover such as cattail and shrub-carr marshes, well established native prairie fields, and areas with 15 percent or more of the landscape in idle grassland will have the highest pheasant densities.
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Plants like cattails, bulrushes, jewelweed, and the lovely cardinal flower do best with alternating wet and dry periods, and survive flooding as long as most of the leaves are out of the water.
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Other species found during the survey include coontail, fragrant waterlily, American pondweed, duckweed, American frogbit, cattail, soft-stem bulrush, and arrowhead.
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Cattails and bulrushes will replace the invasive phragmites that have choked the waterways.
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Cattails and bulrushes are especially efficient at absorbing large quantities of nitrogen and phosphorous, substances easily transported in runoff.
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A red-winged blackbird swaying on last year's cattail in a gully.
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The phosphorous infusion at first caused sawgrass to grow rapidly and abnormally large; then it died and gave way to cattails, which usurp 50 acres of sawgrass a day.
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The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
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Examples of carbonizing herbs to stop bleeding are carbonized cattail pollen, carbonized human hair, carbonized agrimony and carbonized wormwood or mugwort.
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Coming up beside her, he looked with interest at her own small paper factory: a dozen big, fired-clay basins, each filled with scraps of used paper, worn-out scraps of silk and cotton, flax fibers, the soft pith of cattail reeds, and anything else she could get her hands on that might be useful, torn to shreds or ground small in a quern.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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The tidal marshes are dominated by narrowleaf cattail, wild rice, spatterdock and pickerelweed.
Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York
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Or climate warming could be accelerating the rate at which marsh plants such as cattails, bulrushes, and sedges invade ponds and convert them to meadows.
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Fertilizer in irrigation runoff has caused the normally small cattail patches to spread densely over thousands of acres.
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The three dominant plant types in the natural wetland at year 15 were the rice cutgrass, softstem bulrush and cattails.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
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Bog plants, also known as emergent and marginal plants, include some hardy types such as pickerel weed, arrowheads, cattails and yellow water iris; and shorter species including golden-club, parrot's feather and spike rush.
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There's a really lovely pink kind of cattail-ish print, as well, that would be just as nice for a grown-up girl or retro boy as it is for an infant.
February 2008
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Wetland species occurring along the shoreline include buttonbush, dogwood, blue flag, river bulrush, cattail and arrowhead.
Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, Ohio
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Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud.
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They donned black armbands mourning the cattails and circulated petitions to have the offending drainage pipe removed.
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The most common forms included beech-like trees, poplars, willows, cattails, sumac, soapberry, and conifers such as pines, sequoias, and false cypress.
