- Eriophorum angustifolium Honck. - Common Cottongrass - Cyperaceae
© Stan Beesley
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© Stan Beesley
(Map updated: March 2008)
Found in abundance on acid peat on raised and blanket bogs. The plant is fairly inconspicuous in flower, but in fruit it produced plumes of white cotton-like hairs which give the plant its common name. There are two or more fruiting heads per plant, which distinguishes it from the other common species, the Hare's-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum).
All names: Eriophorum angustifolium Honck.; Eriophorum polystachion L.nom.ambig.
NBN Atlas mapping: Species account : NBN Atlas UK Species Observations database
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