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Cattails and grasses flank the marshy banks, snags stand in the muck and Douglas fir and cedar cast shadows across the creek’s meandering bends.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2023

Cattails were expanding across the swamp by as much as nine acres every day.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016

Cattails now cover 20,000 acres of what was once pristine wetland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cattails are taking over the eastern Everglades, crowding out the saw grass and choking the algae at the base of the ecosystem's food chain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cattails, in general, grow in a narrow band paralleling, but back a few yards from, the shoreline.

From Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima by Woolfenden, Glen E.