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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Monocots
  5. Grasses, Sedges, Cattails, and Allies
  6. Bulrush and Cattail Family
  7. Cattails

genus

Cattails

Typha

Traits
Includes
3 native 1 introduced 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Children

  • Broadleaf Cattail native
  • Narrow-leaved Cattail native
  • Southern Cattail native
  • Oriental Cattail present
  • Cape Bulrush
  • Hybrid Cattail introduced
  • Graceful Cattail present
  • Dwarf Cattail
  • Typha × provincialis
  • Typha × soligorskiensis
  • Typha × gezei

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native cattails All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Broadleaf Cattail Typha latifolia caterpillars 13 food 22 flowers 7
  • Southern Cattail Typha domingensis caterpillars 9 food 13 flowers 3
  • Narrow-leaved Cattail Typha angustifolia caterpillars 8 food 16 flowers 2

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