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|accepted_name=Eriophorum virginicum
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 52. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Tawny cotton-grass;linaigrette de Virginie
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eriophorum;Eriophorum virginicum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Cyperaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eriophorum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eriophorum virginicum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 23
|treatment_page=page 22
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>colonial from long-creeping rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 40–120 cm × 0.6–1 mm, smooth or scabrous distally. <b>Leaves</b>: blades flat, trigonous in cross section distally, to 30 cm × 1.5–4 mm; distal leaf blade much longer than sheath. <b>Inflorescences</b>: blade-bearing involucral bracts 2–5, sometimes brown-tinged proximally, leaflike, longest 4–12 cm. <b>Spikelets</b> 2–10, usually in dense head, ovoid, 6–10 mm in flower, 10–20 mm in fruit; peduncles 2–10(–20) mm, scabrid; scales brown, often with green center, ovate-oblong, 4–5 mm, obscurely ribbed or with 3–5 equally prominent ribs, apex obtuse. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles usually 10 or more, brown at least at base, rarely entirely white, 12–18 mm, smooth; anthers 0.7–1.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown to black, narrowly obovoid or ellipsoid, 2.5–4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting mid summer–early fall.
|habitat=Bogs, meadows
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eriophorum virginicum
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting mid summer–early fall.
|habitat=Bogs, meadows
|elevation=0–1000 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Eriophorum
|species=Eriophorum virginicum
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