I soon realized that cattails could make just as compelling a "start of spring" topic as the red-winged blackbirds. Cattails on the edge of a pond in North Berwick, Maine. Seeds escaping a cattail.

I soon realized that cattails could make just as compelling a "start of spring" topic as the red-winged blackbirds. Cattails (Typha latifolia) are the iconic freshwater wetland plant; where there ...