Common emergent vegetation includes cattails, bulrushes, reeds, pickerel weed, arrowheads and ferns. Bulrushes, cattails, and water hyacinths render the toxins harmless. Around the perimeter reeds, sedges, horsetails, bulrushes and willow scrub are found. Blue-winged teal often use heavy growth of bulrushes and cattails as escape cover. During molting, it often remains among extensive beds of bulrushes and cattails. Soras often eat the seeds of plants, such as smartweeds, bulrushes, sedges, and barnyard grasses. Near the river there is a area of standing water with cattails, bulrushes, and arrowhead. Much of the marsh is cattail, with bulrushes, sedges, and sometimes buttonbush. The legumes spread, while sedges, bulrushes, and ferns continued their ascent. Various types of grasses, including wild rice, and sedges, including bulrushes, are found here. The shoal area contains sedge and bulrushes. The shores are sandy and marshy, with thick stands of bulrushes. Near Calera creek there is aquatic vegetation including rushes, bulrushes, horsetail, fat hen, and plantain. The bulrushes this small boat or basket was built with may have been papyrus. It prefers to live in bulrushes, woodland, and swampy areas.