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Typhaceae
Narrow-leaf cattail
Typha angustifolia
Also known as Small cattail, Lesser cattail, Narrow-leaved cattail, Typha angustifolia var. calumetensis
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Aquatic Plant · Cattail · Wetland · Pond Plant · Water Garden · Marginal Plant · Wildlife Habitat · Rain Garden · Native Plant
Narrow-leaf cattail is a robust aquatic perennial perfectly suited for pond edges, rain gardens, and wetland restorations. It thrives in full sun to partial shade with its roots in standing water or permanently saturated soil, requiring virtually no supplemental care once established. Be aware that it can spread vigorously via rhizomes, so containment may be needed in smaller water features.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Keep roots submerged or in consistently saturated soil; ideal for pond margins and water gardens · Continuously moist; suited to wet or boggy conditions
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- peat
- Soil pH
- 3.7–8.5
- Temperature
- -50°F to 100°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Division, Seed
Hardiness
USDA 2a-11b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 3 ft – 6 ft
- Spread
- 5 ft
- Spacing
- 24 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Root depth
- Deep
- Flowers
- Brown
- Foliage
- Green · Coarse
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Arkansas, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Czechoslovakia
- Attracts
- Birds, Moths
Sources: trefle, usda
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