Cattails

Member of Latifolia Family

Blooms in late summer.

This plant grows in water and will rapidly multiply when established in a wet area. It produces spikes of beige flowers in late summer, followed by decorative, cylindrical, dark brown seed heads in summer with beautiful green foliage. They can be dried and used in fall arrangements. Remember when drying flowers, if you hang them upside down when freshly cut, they will keep some of their color and the leaves will not drop.

"And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the reeds by the river's brink.

Exodus 2:3