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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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Grows in moist environments
(e.g. freshwater marshes, ditches, shorelines, wetlands)
= cattail locations on campus
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!
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
More-than-human animals also make use of cattails!
~Red-winged blackbirds, wrens, insects, amphibians and muskrats too~