* Listen to sounds of various marsh plant stands. They do sound a bit different. Dry cattails in autumn make kind of a clattering sound as they knock together.
* When they bloom, they release great clouds of pollen, which should be discernible as a mass. It can be used as flour.
* In some places, there are boardwalks that pass around or through cattail beds, where it would be possible to trail a hand along them. But those are harder to find.
Cattails often form something like a giant lawn ringing a pond, or on the flats they can stretch for acres where it floods.
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* Listen to sounds of various marsh plant stands. They do sound a bit different. Dry cattails in autumn make kind of a clattering sound as they knock together.
* When they bloom, they release great clouds of pollen, which should be discernible as a mass. It can be used as flour.
* In some places, there are boardwalks that pass around or through cattail beds, where it would be possible to trail a hand along them. But those are harder to find.
Cattails often form something like a giant lawn ringing a pond, or on the flats they can stretch for acres where it floods.