- Contact information
-
For information on Lakes in Wisconsin, contact:
- DNR SWIMS
Division of Water
Bureau of Water Quality
- Aquatic Invasive Species Contacts
Southern Cattail - Deming Way area, Middleton, WI
- Status
-
Verified and Vouchered
- Date First Found
-
9/1/2011
- Location First Found
-
Esser Pond, Middleton
- Latitude and Longitude
-
43.10325,
-89.52046
- Original Extent
-
A Few Plants
About
Southern Cattail
Southern cattails are perennial wetland plants with long, slender green stalks topped with brown, fluffy, sausage-shaped flowering heads. It can invade freshwater marshes, wet meadows, fens, roadsides, ditches, shallow ponds, stream, and lake shores. It can play an important role as a source of food and shelter for some marsh-dwelling animals, but large mono-specific stands of invasive cattails exclude some less common species.