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Tawny Cottongrass

Eriophorum virginicum

Description:

Flowers with silky white hairs, forming cottony tufts atop triangular stems; leaves grasslike, sparsely scattered along stem. Like the snowfall out of season, compact stands of cottongrass clothe northern bogs and meadows with a soft blanket of white in summer and fall.

Habitat:

Bogs, moist prairies meadows, tundra.

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Averill, Vermont, USA

Spotted on Sep 24, 2014
Submitted on Sep 30, 2014

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