[The Sedge Family in Denali National Park and Preserve]

Cottongrasses of Denali National Park and Preserve

The Genus Eriophorum

 

 


Unidentified Cottongrasses: Can you help identify these cottongrasses?

Tall Cottongrass: Eriophorum angustifolium ssp. angustifolium (Synonyms: Eriophorum angustifolium ssp. scabriusculum, Eriophorum angustifolium ssp. subarcticum, Eriophorum angustifolium var. coloratum, Eriophorum angustifolium var. giganteum, Eriophorum angustifolium var. majus, Eriophorum polystachion)

Tall Cottongrass: Eriophorum angustifolium ssp. triste (Synonym: Eriophorum triste) ?

Closed-sheath Cottongrass, Northland Cottonsedge: Eriophorum brachyantherum (Synonyms: Eriophorum opacum, Eriophorum vaginatum var. opacum)

Arctic Cottongrass: Eriophorum callitrix

Slender Cottongrass: Eriophorum gracile

Red Cottongrass: Eriophorum russeolum ssp. leiocarpum

White Cottongrass: Eriophorum scheuchzeri ssp. arcticum

Tussock Cotton-grass: Eriophorum vaginatum (Synonyms: Eriophorum spissum, Eriophorum spissum var. erubescens, Eriophorum vaginatum ssp. spissum)


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