I would care!! 😭

The large growths are great homes & nurseries for fish & ducks, the latter of which is sometimes known to have such a taste for the plant that they devour it.

It is perennial & grows an assortment of long-lasting flowers which are well-known to attract great pollinators.

Pickerelweed for the win!

Commonly growing along ponds, lakes, & swamp areas, Pickerelweed is named after the fish it is thought to coexist with; the pickerel fish or Northern Pike. It grows in many inches of water & very aggressively so, helping stabilize riverbeds & pond banks, so it's often used for restoration projects.

One of the ways it gets one of its names (Fly Poison) is because it can be used to kill flies! Typically, it's ground into a paste and mixed with sugar. It's also quite poisonous to humans, so no snacking!

The name Stagger Grass relates to cattle staggering after eating the plant and falling ill😱

Like many other swamp-dwelling plant species, they love acidic soil and areas with lots of sphagnum moss are their favorite homes.
They are around 2-4 feet tall and have white & yellow flowers, and can be spread by seed or by separation of their bulb. This is a stock photo but it's a great diagram!

Frogs, toads, and salamanders love to use the trenched roots as areas for breeding; they make great larval hosts for the baldcrypress sphinx moth, they attract seed-eating birds & are excellent roosting trees, & because they're accustomed to large water intake, wonderful for flood-water absorption.

They're well known for their long-lived nature, believed to exceed ~1000 years in age, & remain popular in landscaping due their natural resistance to hurricane winds.

Many older specimens are gone due to logging -- the heartwood of elder Bald Cypress trees is prized for its resistance to rotting.