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