Botanical Illustrator

Aquatic Plants:


Cattail


Cattails (Typha latifolia), watercolor pencil & watercolor
Commissioned by: FLW Outdoors Magazine
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About Cattail:
Cattails, or cat-tails, are aquatic and wetland plants and grow to about ten feet tall. Red-winged blackbirds build nests on cattails. Muskrats also use them to build their houses. Cattails flower in the summer. In the fall the flower heads open to show the fluffy downy material that surrounds the seeds, which are spread by wind. Cattails are native to the United States. Cattail down was used by Native Americans to line moccasins and papoose boards.

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta (flowering plants)
Class: Liliopsida (monocotyledons or monocots, having one cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in the seed)
Order: Poales
Family: Typhaceae
Genus: Typha
Species: Typha latifolia

More information about Cattail:
Common cattail (more about animals using cattails for nest-building)
Wikipedia: Typha
Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plant Particulars

Products Featuring the Cattails Illustration:

Cattails Note Cards

Note Cards (Pk of 10) Cattails

Cattails (Typha latifolia), watercolor. Botanical art featured on these note cards is by botanical illustrator, Gina Mikel.



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