LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Cattails are tall, perennial, aquatic plants found in rice fields, drainage ditches, and irrigation canals. They have extensive and fleshy creeping stems (rhizomes). Leaf blades are stiff, rounded on the back, spiral in top half, and are sheathed together at base, appearing “flattened".

Detailed explanation-2: -cattail, (genus Typha), genus of about 30 species of tall reedy marsh plants (family Typhaceae), found mainly in temperate and cold regions of the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The plants inhabit fresh to slightly brackish waters and are considered aquatic or semi-aquatic.