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The marsh plant that hid baby Moses and still photobombs every wetland.
means A tall, reedy marsh plant with a brown, sausage-like flower spike, common in wetlands and often called cattail.
from From Old English or Middle English 'bul-' (likely meaning large or coarse, possibly related to 'bull' used as an intensifying prefix as in 'bullfrog') plus 'rush,' the ancient word for marsh plants used for weaving and strewing floors. So a bulrush is, roughly, the big, coarse rush — the oversized cousin of ordinary rushes that towers over the waterline.
- botanical mixup
- often confused with cattails, a totally different genus
- biblical cameo
- the reeds in the Moses basket story
- ecosystem job
- filters pollutants from wetland water naturally
- growth habit
- can form dense stands over six feet tall