Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Cattails

Around Ohio

Cattails

I enjoy coming across cattails growing in a pond or even a ditch. The stalks are great fun to wave around in the wind when the brown head pops open and the down comes out. Cattail roots can be ground into flour to make bread. The pollen is abundant in vitamins and should be added to the bread. Then boil the roots and make jelly to put on your bread.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmm...very interesting. I guess you'd never starve near a lake!

Anonymous said...

Go ahead, you eat some first.

Susanna said...

I like the cattail sihouttes against the lake. What time of year is this?

J Beachy said...

I took this picture in the spring.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful, I didn't know cattails were edible.