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PLANT INDEX
ID_PLANT: ERVI8
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eriophorum virginicum
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Last Modified: 2020-01-01
GENUS INDEX
GENUS CODE: ERIOP GENUS SCIENTIFIC:Eriophorum GENUS AUTHORITY: L. GENUS COMMON: Cottongrass GENUS SUMMARY: A genus of about 20 species, herbs, primarily north temperate, boreal, and arctic. GENUS IDENTIFICATION: GENUS REFERENCES: Ball & Wujek in FNA (2002b); Goetghebeur in Kubitzki (1998b).
FAMILY INDEX
FAMILY CODE: CYPERA FAMILY SCIENTIFIC:Cyperaceae FAMILY AUTHORITY: A.L. de Jussieu 1789 FAMILY COMMON: Sedge Family FAMILY SUMMARY: A family of about 100 genera and 5000 species, mostly herbs, cosmopolitan. FAMILY REFERENCE: Ball, Reznicek, & Murray in FNA (2002b); Muasya et al. (2009); Tucker (1987); Goetghebeur in Kubitzki (1998b).
This information is derived from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 2016 National Wetland Plant List, Version 3.3 (Lichvar, R.W., D.L. Banks, W.N. Kirchner, and N.C. Melvin. 2016. The National Wetland Plant List: 2016 wetland ratings. Phytoneuron 2016-30: 1-17. Published 28 April 2016. ISSN 2153 733X). Regions: AGCP-Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain, AK-Alaska, AW-Arid West, CB-Caribbean, EMP-Eastern Mountains and Piedmont, GP-Great Plains, HI-Hawaii, MW-Midwest, NCNE-Northcentral and Northeast, WMCV-Western Mountains, Valleys & Coast
2018 Natural Heritage Program List of Rare Plant Species of North Carolina
This information is derived from the 2018 North Carolina Natural Heritage Program List of Rare Plant Species.
WEAKLEY FLORA
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Eriophorum virginicum
COMMON NAME: Tawny Cottongrass
SYNONYMY: [= C, F, FNA, G, GW, K, Pa, RAB, S, Tn, Va, W, WV]
PHENOLOGY: Jun-Sep.
HABITAT: Peaty sites, limited in habitat throughout the region, occurring in the Mountains in bogs and fens, in the Piedmont (formerly) in bogs, in the fall-line sandhills in frequently burned pocosins and sandhill seeps, in the middle and outer Coastal Plain in pocosins, acidic seeps, and peat-burn pools.
COMMENTS: NL (Labrador) and NL (Newfoundland) west to ON and MN, south to se. NC, sw. NC, e. KY; disjunct in se. GA at Okefenokee Swamp. Very variable in size, from 5-15 dm tall, with heads ranging from 1-6 cm in diameter, the larger plants primarily in the Coastal Plain and the smaller in the Mountains.
RANGE MAP: Eriophorum virginicum.png
Key to Map SymbolsABOUT FAMILY (Weakley Flora) Cyperaceae A.L. de Jussieu 1789 (Sedge Family) SUMMARY: A family of about 100 genera and 5000 species, mostly herbs, cosmopolitan. REFERENCE: Ball, Reznicek, & Murray in FNA (2002b); Muasya et al. (2009); Tucker (1987); Goetghebeur in Kubitzki (1998b).ABOUT GENUS (Weakley Flora) Eriophorum L. (Cottongrass) SUMMARY: A genus of about 20 species, herbs, primarily north temperate, boreal, and arctic. REFERENCE: Ball & Wujek in FNA (2002b); Goetghebeur in Kubitzki (1998b).
HERBARIUM RESOURCES
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University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Herbarium - Southeast Regional Network of Experts and Collections (if available)