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Cotton-grass
Eriophorum angustifolium
56.1561, -4.65611
Field Notes
Description:
Fluffy, cotton-like flower and seed heads give this distinctive plant its name. However, as a member of the sedge family, its technically not a grass at all.
Habitat:
Common in moorlands and bogs throughout the UK.
Notes:
Flowers from May to June. The fluffy white fronds of common cottongrass were once used as pillow stuffing in Suffolk. In Scotland they used them to dress wounds during First World War.
County flower of Manchester.
The white plumes of cotton-grass are a familiar sight in wet hollows on the moors above the city. They are an emblem both of their boggy habitat and of the wide open spaces.
Reference Links:
Cotton-grass (Common) | Plant & fungi species | Wild plants
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2013
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