Many parts of cattail plants are edible, not only to birds and animals but also for humans. The rhizomes are fibrous and starchy, and are usually harvested in the winter and cooked like potatoes. The lateral underground stems are also edible. The base of the leaves can even be eaten raw...
Pancakes are one of the world’s oldest and most beloved breakfast foods. Their history goes back 30,000 years ago when Stone Age people made flour out of readily available ingredients like cattails and ferns. It is believed the ingredients were combined with water and baked on a hot rock....
, but is set up mostly in water collection and drainage ponds...good for the creeks as the cattails suck up the nitrates from the suburbanite lawns...bad as a food source as the lawn treatments also use weed killers that are cancer causing and are also sucked up by the cattails. ...