View source for Eriophorum scheuchzeri

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eriophorum scheuchzeri
|accepted_authority=Hoppe
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Taschenb.
|place=1800: 104, plate 7. 1800
|year=1800
}}
|common_names=White cotton-grass;linaigrette de Scheuchzer
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriophorum altaicum
|authority=Meinshausen
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriophorum capitatum
|authority=Host
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriophorum scheuchzeri var. tenuifolium
|authority=Ohwi
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eriophorum;Eriophorum scheuchzeri
|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 scheuchzeri]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 21, 24
|treatment_page=page 25
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>colonial from long-creeping rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> solitary or few together, 5–35(–70) cm, usually not more than 1 mm diam. basally; basal sheaths persistent, brown or reddish, septate-nodulose. <b>Leaves</b>: blades channeled or strongly involute, 3–12 cm; distal leaves usually bladeless with black-tipped sheath. <b>Inflorescences</b>: involucre absent. <b>Spikelets</b> 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. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 10 or more, bright white, sometimes red-tinged, 15–30 mm, smooth; anthers 0.5–1.5 mm. <b>Achenes</b> narrowly oblong, 0.4–2.5 mm, apex with subulate beak. <b>2n</b> = 58.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Tundra, wet peat, marshy ground, peaty soils, riverbanks, lake and pond shores
|elevation=0–3000 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Mont.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Eriophorum scheuchzeri</i> <i></i>var.<i> tenuifolium</i> Ohwi does not appear to be differentiated based on the North American specimens examined.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eriophorum scheuchzeri
|authority=Hoppe
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Eriophorum altaicum;Eriophorum capitatum;Eriophorum scheuchzeri var. tenuifolium
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Tundra, wet peat, marshy ground, peaty soils, riverbanks, lake and pond shores
|elevation=0–3000 m
|distribution=Greenland;Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Colo.;Mont.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Taschenb.
|publication year=1800
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V23/V23_29.xml
|genus=Eriophorum
|species=Eriophorum scheuchzeri
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