DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
SPECIES: Typha latifolia | Common Cattail 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Common cattail has a nearly worldwide distribution.  It grows in North
America, Central America, Great Britain, Eurasia, Africa, New Zealand,
Australia, and Japan.  In North America it grows in arctic, temperate,
subtropical, and tropical regions from central Alaska and northwest
Canada to Newfoundland, and south through every province, territory, and
state to Mexico and Guatemala [12,30].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
   FRES10  White - red - jack pine
   FRES11  Spruce - fir
   FRES13  Loblolly - shortleaf pine
   FRES14  Oak - pine
   FRES15  Oak - hickory
   FRES16  Oak - gum - cypress
   FRES17  Elm - ash - cottonwood
   FRES18  Maple - beech - birch
   FRES20  Douglas-fir
   FRES21  Ponderosa pine
   FRES23  Fir - spruce
   FRES24  Hemlock - Sitka spruce
   FRES26  Lodgepole pine
   FRES27  Redwood
   FRES28  Western hardwoods
   FRES29  Sagebrush
   FRES30  Desert shrub
   FRES31  Shinnery
   FRES32  Texas savanna
   FRES33  Southwestern shrubsteppe
   FRES34  Chaparral - mountain shrub
   FRES35  Pinyon - juniper
   FRES36  Mountain grasslands
   FRES38  Plains grasslands
   FRES39  Prairie
   FRES40  Desert grasslands
   FRES41  Wet grasslands


STATES : 
     AL  AK  AZ  AR  CA  CO  CT  DE  FL  GA
     HI  ID  IL  IN  IA  KS  KY  LA  ME  MD
     MA  MI  MN  MS  MO  MT  NE  NV  NH  NJ
     NM  NY  NC  ND  OH  OK  OR  PA  RI  SC
     SD  TN  TX  UT  VT  VA  WA  WV  WI  WY
     AB  BC  LB  MB  NB  NF  NT  NS  ON  PE
     PQ  SK  YT  MEXICO


ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS : 
     ACAD  AGFO  ALPO  AMIS  APIS  ARCH
     ASIS  BADL  BIBE  BICY  BISO  BITH
     BICA  CACH  CANY  CACO  CAHA  CALO
     CARE  CAMO  CHCU  CHCH  COLO  COLM
     COSW  CODA  CUGA  CUIS  CUVA  DEWA
     DINO  EFMO  EVER  FIIS  FOBU  GATE
     GWMP  GLAC  GRCA  GRTE  GRKO  GRSA
     GRSM  HOBE  INDU  ISRO  JELA  JECA
     JODA  JOFL  LAME  LAVO  MACA  MEVE
     MORA  NATR  NABR  NERI  OBRI  OLYM
     PIRO  PIPE  PORE  PRWI  REDW  RICH
     ROMO  SAJH  SAMO  SARA  SCBL  SLBE
     THRO  TICA  VAFO  VOYA  WHIS  WHSA
     WICA  YELL  YUCH  ZION


BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K001  Spruce - cedar - hemlock forest
   K002  Cedar - hemlock - Douglas-fir forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K012  Douglas-fir forest
   K016  Eastern ponderosa forest
   K017  Black Hills pine forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K019  Arizona pine forest
   K023  Juniper - pinyon woodland
   K024  Juniper steppe woodland
   K025  Alder - ash forest
   K027  Mesquite bosque
   K028  Mosaic of K002 and K026
   K035  Coastal sagebrush
   K037  Mountain-mahogany - oak scrub
   K038  Great Basin sagebrush
   K039  Blackbrush
   K040  Saltbush - greasewood
   K041  Creosotebush
   K045  Ceniza shrub
   K049  Tule marshes
   K051  Wheatgrass - bluegrass
   K055  Sagebrush steppe
   K056  Wheatgrass - needlegrass shrubsteppe
   K057  Galleta - three-awn shrubsteppe
   K058  Grama - tobosa shrubsteppe
   K059  Trans-Pecos shrub savanna
   K063  Foothills prairie
   K064  Grama - needlegrass - wheatgrass
   K065  Grama - buffalograss
   K066  Wheatgrass - needlegrass
   K067  Wheatgrass - bluestem - needlegrass
   K068  Wheatgrass - grama - buffalograss
   K070  Sandsage - bluestem prairie
   K071  Shinnery
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K080  Marl - everglades
   K081  Oak savanna
   K082  Mosaic of K074 and K100
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K094  Conifer bog
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K096  Northeastern spruce - fir forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalacian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K109  Transition between K104 and K106
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest
   K114  Pocosin


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
     5  Balsam fir
    12  Black spruce
    13  Black spruce - tamarack
    15  Red pine
    20  White pine - northern red oak - red maple
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    33  Red spruce - balsam fir
    35  Paper birch - red spruce - balsam fir
    38  Tamarack
    42  Bur oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    63  Cottonwood
    82  Loblolly pine - hardwood
    95  Black willow
   100  Pondcypress
   101  Baldcypress
   102  Baldcypress - tupelo
   103  Water tupelo - swamp tupelo
   107  White spruce
   108  Red maple
   110  Black oak
   201  White spruce
   204  Black spruce
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   218  Lodgepole pine
   221  Red alder
   222  Black cottonwood - willow
   223  Sitka spruce
   225  Western hemlock - Sitka spruce
   227  Western redcedar - western hemlock
   229  Pacific Douglas-fir
   230  Douglas-fir - western hemlock
   235  Cottonwood - willow
   237  Interior ponderosa pine
   239  Pinyon - juniper
   242  Mesquite


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


HABITAT TYPES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Common cattail forms dense, nearly monospecific communities in shallow,
freshwater marshes and ponds.  It also occurs as a codominant in mixed
stands with bulrush (Scirpus acutus, S. californicus) and maidencane
(Panicum hemitomon) [5,35].

Publications naming common cattail as a dominant species in riparian and
plant community classifications are listed below.

Aquatic and semiaquatic vegetation of Utah Lake and its bays [5]
Riparian dominance types of Monatana [17]
Riparian type community type classification of Utah and southeastern
   Idaho [33] 
Plant communities in the marshlands of southeastern Lousiana [35]
Plant communities of Voyagers National Park, Minnesota [49]

Related categories for Species: Typha latifolia | Common Cattail