Also known as Cattails
Typha is a genus of about 30 species of monocotyledonous flowering plants in the family Typhaceae. These plants have a variety of common names, in British English bulrush or reedmace, in American English cattail or punks, in Australia cumbungi or bulrush, in Canada bulrush or cattail, and in New Zealand raupō, bullrush, cattail, or reed.
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Filtering wastewater through wetland plants like reeds and cattails before using it to irrigate crops removes most heavy metals and pollutants, producing lettuce that's safer to eat than crops grown with raw sewage water.
If you've ever noticed cattails colonizing a ditch or retention pond, this shows why they're a go-to plant for cleaning up...
The cattails and bulrushes lining your local pond or stormwater basin may be quietly pulling heavy metals and excess...
If you're restoring a rain garden or bioswale near a road or old industrial site, common reed and purple loosestrife relatives...
Floating plant rafts planted with cattails are being used to clean up chromium-contaminated water bodies — meaning a plant...
Cattails growing at the edge of a contaminated pond or mining site are quietly pulling toxic metals out of the water and...
Cattails growing at the edge of your local pond or wetland are actively pulling toxic metals like cadmium and copper out of...
Cattails spreading into neighborhood wetlands and drainage areas can crowd out native plants, so knowing exactly where they're...
Waterways near farms — and the parks, wetlands, and drinking water sources downstream — are quietly accumulating antibiotics...
Waterways near farms — and the parks, wetlands, and drinking water sources downstream — are quiet...
Cattails growing at the edge of your local pond or wetland are actively pulling toxic metals like...
If you've ever wondered how cities might grow food sustainably with limited clean water, this sho...
Cattails growing at the edge of a contaminated pond or mining site are quietly pulling toxic meta...
Floating plant rafts planted with cattails are being used to clean up chromium-contaminated water...
If you've ever noticed cattails colonizing a ditch or retention pond, this shows why they're a go...
The cattails and bulrushes lining your local pond or stormwater basin may be quietly pulling heav...
If you're restoring a rain garden or bioswale near a road or old industrial site, common reed and...
