Warner WetlandsWalk by Dr. Quentin Carpenter, Senior Lecturer in the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at UW-Madison / 31CattailVar by Marilyn Sallee 6/12/2011 click on small image to see larger one

Dr. Quentin Carpenter explains the difference in European and American cattials with this classic European - note narrow leaf and wide gap between male and female flower clusters (the "corndog" on the cattail stem)