Eriophorum scheuchzeri Hoppe (Q3355)

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Eriophorum scheuchzeri is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Eriophorum subg. Eriophorum
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Eriophorum scheuchzeri Hoppe
Eriophorum scheuchzeri is a taxon with the rank species within the subgenus Eriophorum subg. Eriophorum

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    taxon/id/Eriophorum scheuchzeri Hoppe
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    Eriophorum scheuchzeri Hoppe
    Eriophorum scheuchzeri
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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    Eriophorum scheuchzeri
    Scheuchzer's cottongrass (English)
    one-spike cottongrass (English)
    white cottongrass (English)
    linaigrette de Scheuchzer (French)
    White cotton-grass (English)
    linaigrette de Scheuchzer (English)
    tundra
    wet peat
    marshy ground
    peaty soils
    riverbanks
    pond shores
    Greenland
    Eurasia
    Plants colonial from long-creeping rhizomes.
    Culms solitary or few together, 5–35 (–70) cm, usually not more than 1 mm diam. basally;
    basal sheaths persistent, brown or reddish, septate-nodulose.
    Leaves: blades channeled or strongly involute, 3–12 cm;
    distal leaves usually bladeless with black-tipped sheath.
    Inflorescences: involucre absent.
    Spikelets solitary, erect, broadly obovoid to subglobose in fruit, 8–12 (–40) mm;
    scales gray to blackish green;
    proximal empty scales not more than 7, ovate, 4–10 mm, midrib not reaching tip;
    distal scales narrower, more attenuate, margins hyaline, not more than 1 mm wide.
    Flowers: perianth bristles 10 or more, bright white, sometimes red-tinged, 15–30 mm, smooth;
    anthers 0.5–1.5 mm.
    Achenes narrowly oblong, 0.4–2.5 mm, apex with subulate beak.