Common Name: Narrow-leaved Cattail

Scientific Name: Typha domingensis

Family: Typhaceae

Lake Hosea

Henderson County, North Carolina

August 14, 2002

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Similar to Common Cattail, but narrower.  Staminate flowers separated by a gap from pistillate flowers.   Coast from Delaware south, is 7 to 12 feet, with 10 or more flat leaves, not convex on back.  May - July  [Peterson, Roger Tory and McKenny, Margaret, Peterson Field Guides: A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and Northcentral North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1968]

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