[Cottongrasses: The Genus Eriophorum West of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]

Fringed Cottongrass

Calliscirpus criniger

Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger

Close-up of the inflorescence of Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger)

A close-up of the inflorescence of fringed cottongrass as seen in a serpentine fen along Eight Dollar Mountain Road in the Siskiyou region of southwestern Oregon.........April 29, 2012. Note the long subtending bract on this individual plant.

Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger) - Close-up of the inflorescence of Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger)

Close-up of the inflorescence (in bud) of Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger) - Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger) - Close-up of the inflorescence of Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger)

Additional close-ups of the inflorescence of fringed cottongrass as seen in a serpentine fen along Eight Dollar Mountain Road in the Siskiyou region of southwestern Oregon. Photographs from April 27 and April 29, 2012.

Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger)

Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger) - Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger) - Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger)

Fringed cottongrass blooming along Deer Creek adjacent to Star Flat, several miles west of Selma, OR......April 22, 2021.

Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger) - Fringed Cottongrass: Calliscirpus criniger (Synonyms: Eriophorum criniger, Eriophorum crinigerum, Scirpus criniger)

What appears to be fringed cottongrass as seen in vernally moist meadows upslope to the east several hundred yards from Upper Bigelow Lake, Siskiyou National Forest..........July 14, 2012.

Paul Slichter