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Ethnobotany Plant Project- Cattails

Cattails (Typha latifolia)

Names

Stewardship and Reciprocity

Herbaceous perennial - leaves and stems regrow year after year if properly managed

- Common name: cattail

- Scientific name: Typha latifolia

- Ojibwe name: Apuk’we

- Hulkemel’em name: sth’a:qel

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Habitat and locations

  • cut leaves at the water line
  • limit root harvesting, use pollen for flour instead!
  • harvest from different plants and patches
  • maintain a clean watershed
  • remove invasive grasses

Grows in moist environments

(e.g. freshwater marshes, ditches, shorelines, wetlands)

= cattail locations on campus

Challenges & Solutions

Cultural significance

  • weaving material for mats, baskets, shelters
  • charcoal for tattooing
  • down associated with burial rituals

1. Drying cattails without molding = rotate leaves daily

2. Cattail tissue accumulates pollutants = know the history of your site

3. Weaving leaves without cracking = wrap in wet towel (10 minutes)

4. Containing seed fluff = good luck!

Ethnobotanical uses

Leaves: mats, baskets, cordage

Roots: flour, poultice on burns and infections

Stems: edible young shoots, arrow shafts

Fluff: insulating footwear, pillows, tinder

Pollen: flour, control bleeding

The world of cattails

More-than-human animals also make use of cattails!

Preparation techniques

~Red-winged blackbirds, wrens, insects, amphibians and muskrats too~

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