I have always loved the way that cattails looked & now I have even more reasons to love them! Check out this great article about the wonders & benefits of plants and trees that surround us daily. It’s a shame that so many of Mother Nature’s residents are not valued for their amazing properties. I guess it’s our job to share the knowledge before it (& the plants) becomes extinct.

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Cattails can be found throughout the world and are some of the most useful plants in the wild. In fact, some people even refer to the cattail as the “Wal-Mart of the swamp” because you can eat parts of the plant, use its pollen as flour, create an anesthetic from it and even wave baskets from its leaves.
10 remarkably useful plants you can find in the wild