Common examples include cattails, sedges, papyrus and sawgrass. Bulrushes, cattails, and water hyacinths render the toxins harmless. The nest is built in cattails, rushes, grasses, sedge, or in alder or willow bushes. They prefer areas with sedges, rushes, and cattails along with large areas of open water. The nest is made using plants like cattails, reeds and grasses. The marsh rabbit commonly inhabits brackish and freshwater marshes, mainly of cattails and cypress. Frequent hiding spots include dense thickets, hollow logs, and stands of cattails and grasses. Typically, they feed on leaves and bulbs of marsh plants including cattails, brushes, and grasses. Blue-winged teal often use heavy growth of bulrushes and cattails as escape cover. Near the river there is a area of standing water with cattails, bulrushes, and arrowhead. During molting, it often remains among extensive beds of bulrushes and cattails. The freshwater marshes are characterized by emergent vegetation including tules and cattails among other species. Their breeding habitat is marshes with tall vegetation such as cattails across North America. Normal hiding spots include dense thickets of magnolia, black-gum, sweet-gum, briers, and cattails. "Phragmites" displaces native plants species such as wild rice, cattails, and native wetland orchids.