As these fruits mature in autumn, they gradually disintegrate into “fluff” composed of thousands of almost microscopic seeds, each attached to a few hairs to make it windborne.
Cattails are still rather easy to find in our local wetlands, even though much of their habitat has been taken over by the non-native common reed. We have two species, plus a hybrid.
It grows only to about four feet tall, with leaves less than half an inch wide. There is evidence that this is non-native, from Europe, and like many non-native plants it has some invasive tendencies. It is more common along the East Coast, but is spreading rapidly in the Midwest. Its seeds are usually sterile, but once established from the few viable seeds, it spreads very rapidly by its rhizomes. It can be found wherever the ranges of the other two species overlap. From my observation, it is the most common species in the remaining cattail marshes along the Delaware River.
I remember burning the dry fruiting spikes as “punks” to create an insect-repelling smoke, in one of my rare childhood visits to Staten island, which was “country” at the time.
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