He never quite stayed still, peeking out of the cattails to eye this Brobdingnagian and see whether it meant any harm. |
Like beavers, muskrats build lodges out of sticks, twigs, cattails and bulrushes, reinforcing them with mud. |
Digging deeper, he would have found long-dormant seeds of marsh sedges and the sleeping rhizomes of tules and cattails. |
The sediment load is settling out with the passage of time and the purifying influence of cattails and bulrushes. |
The most frequently emergent macrophytes used are reeds, bulrushes, cattails, rushes and sedges. |
Everything would be awash in pale yellow-green with cattails on the alders, and the maples trailing green seed plumes. |