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Eriophorum vaginatum

  • Family name: Cyperaceae
  • Common name: tussock cottongrass
  • Growth form: Graminoid
  • Names used on the Toolik-Arctic Geobotanical Atlas maps:
    • Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map: Eriophorum vaginatum
    • Arctic Alaska Tundra Vegetation Map: Eriophorum vaginatum
    • Toolik Map: Eriophorum vaginatum
    • Toolik Permanent Plots: Eriophorum vaginatum
    • Imnavait Creek Permanent Plots: Eriophorum vaginatum
    • Happy Valley Permanent Plots: Eriophorum vaginatum

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  1. Eriophorum vaginatum    , tussock cottongrass
  2. If you go over the moors on the M62 Motorway from Manchester to Yorkshire in July/August you might notice large patches of off-white all over Moss Moor to the South. This is cotton-grass flowering with thousands of plants. It loves peaty country like these moors and is an indication of soggy, acid country.
    Cwm Idwal, Wales, UK 5/24/04
    Image author: PJ Llewellyn ©
    Website: Wild Plants of the British Isles
    Please contact Peterl@foxfield.fsnet.co.uk before using image
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  1. Eriophorum vaginatum    , tussock cottongrass
  2. Image author: D.A. Walker ©
    Website: Alaska Geobotany Center
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  1. Eriophorum vaginatum    , tussock cottongrass
  2. Toolik Field Station, Alaska, USA: July, 2007
    Image author: M.K. Raynolds ©
    Website: Alaska Geobotany Center
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  1. Eriophorum vaginatum    , tussock cottongrass
  2. Flowering tussocks
    6/12/1998
    Image author: Jari Taivainen ©
    Website: Jarin Nettikasvio
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