These plants include smartweed, millet, chufa, bulrush, and sedge. The Tule River is named for a common bulrush or cattail known as "tule". Plants such as bulrush, cattail, and other grasses were also significant food sources. They eat reeds, the giant reed, bulrush, sedges, the common water hyacinth, and rushes. The most prominent plants are bulrush, specifically California bulrush, and cattail. Other common names include cottongrass bulrush and brown woolly sedge. Plants within the park include, sabal palm, live oak, pickerelweed, duckweed, and giant bulrush. Plant life includes common reeds, bulrush and saltgrass. In the thick reeds and bulrush there were many snakes and frogs, fishes and leeches. It has the largest hardstem bulrush marsh in North America. Emergent vegetation and other plants, such as bulrush, grew all around the lake shore. "Raupo" is Maori for bulrush ("Typha orientalis"), a type of reed. Oklejanki or wyklejanki are decorated with bulrush pith or yarn. Other area may have Joe-Pye weed, bulrush, and spikerush.