Eriophorum gracile |
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linaigrette grêle, slender cotton-grass, slender cottonsedge |
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Habit | Plants colonial from long-creeping rhizomes. |
Culms | 20–60 cm × 0.5–0.8 mm, distally smooth. |
Leaves | blades trigonous-channeled in cross section, to 30 cm × 1–2 mm; distal leaf blade 1–4 cm × 1–1.5 mm, shorter than its 3.5–5.5 cm sheath. |
Inflorescences | blade-bearing involucral bracts solitary, similar to distal leaf, blade usually gray or black proximally, 0.6–2 cm. |
Spikelets | (1–)2–5, in subumbels, narrowly ovoid, 7–10 mm in flower, 15–25 mm in fruit; peduncles 5–30 mm, scabrous; scales black or dark gray with black tip, broadly ovate, 3–4 mm, scarious, margins absent or to 0.1 mm wide, 5–9-ribbed, midrib prominent, usually dilated distally, reaching tip, apex obtuse-subacute. |
Flowers | perianth bristles 10 or more, white, 10–15 mm, smooth; anthers 1–2.5 mm. |
Achenes | narrowly obovoid, 1.5–3 mm. |
Eriophorum gracile |
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Phenology | Fruiting late spring–mid summer. |
Habitat | Meadows, bogs, shores, usually peaty, acidic substrates |
Elevation | 0–4000 m (0–13100 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; CO; CT; DE; ID; IL; IN; MA; ME; MI; MN; MT; NH; NJ; NV; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; UT; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; NL; NS; NT; NU; ON; PE; QC; SK; SPM; Eurasia
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Source | FNA vol. 23, p. 25. |
Parent taxa | Cyperaceae > Eriophorum |
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Name authority | W. D. J. Koch ex Roth: Catal. Bot. 2: 259. (1800) |
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