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Typha latifolia is a perennial, herbaceous flowering wetland plant in the family Typhaceae.It is known commonly as bulrush [4] [5] (sometimes as common bulrush, [6] to distinguish from other species of Typha); in North America, it is often referred to as broadleaf cattail, or simply as cat-tail or cattail reed. [7]
Typha / ˈ t aɪ f ə / is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae.These plants have a variety of common names, in British English as bulrush [4] or (mainly historically) reedmace, [5] in American English as cattail, [6] or punks, in Australia as cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada as bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand as reed, cattail, bulrush ...
The Typha x glauca plant species can invade a variety of different habitats, from freshwater marshes to wet meadows to roadsides. [3] This plant requires an underwater base in order to survive in that habitat, which is the factor that all these habitats have in common.
Typha minima is a light-loving plant and cannot tolerate shade. It grows on periodically flooded banks of slow flowing, cool and pure waters, along lake margins, in marshes, ponds and swamps, at an altitude of 0–1,000 metres (0–3,281 ft) above sea level.
The plants have creeping rhizomes. [3] The male flowers either lack a perianth or have six scales. They may also have club shaped threads or wedge or spatula shaped scales that are intermingled with the flowers. They have between two and seven stamens. [3] The female flowers have a perianth of fine hairs or scales.
Typically, they feed on leaves and bulbs of marsh plants including cattails, brushes, and grasses. [11] They can also feed on other aquatic or marsh plants such as centella, greenbrier vine, marsh pennywort, water hyacinth, wild potato, and amaryllis. [12] Marsh rabbits, like all rabbits, reingest their food, a practice known as coprophagy. [7]
The Southern Cattail grows between 2.0 to 2.5 meters in length and has flat sheaths to protect its core. It thrives in marshes and ecosystems where the land has a similarity to wetlands . It can also survive in high salinity water sources, making it much more resilient than similar species to this kind of cattail .
Typha laxmannii, the graceful cattail, [3] is a wetland plant species, widespread across Europe and Asia. [4] [5] Typha laxmannii is not as tall as many of the other species in the genus, rarely more than 130 cm high. A noticeable space separates the staminate (male) flowers from the pistillate (female) ones. [4]