The Incredible Cattail

by Leon

One of the few edible wild plants most people can recognize is the cattail. Found virtually everywhere, the plant flourishes wherever there is water and mud.

It is a four-season food, medicinal, and utility plant. What other plant can boast eight food products, three medicinal, and at least 12 other functional uses?

This cattail would provide good firestarting tinder.

It is also a plant that just about anybody can identify, so it has practical applications as a wilderness survival food source for wilderness survival newcomers.

Here is an informative article from Backwoods Home magazine. Check out the many uses of this plant: click here.