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|accepted_name=Eriophorum tenellum
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|place=2: additions. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Linaigrette ténue
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Cyperaceae;Eriophorum;Eriophorum tenellum
|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 tenellum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 23
|mention_page=page 22
|treatment_page=page 24
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>colonial fron long-creeping rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> (10–)20–90 cm × 0.5–0.8(–1.5) mm, scabrous distally. <b>Leaves</b>: blades trigonous-channeled in cross section, to 45 cm × 1–1.5(–3) mm; distal leaf blade 3–25 cm × 1–1.5 mm, longer than its (1–)2.5–9 cm sheath. <b>Inflorescences</b>: blade-bearing involucral bracts solitary, similar to distal leaf, blade sometimes brown proximally, 0.8–6 cm. <b>Spikelets</b> (1–)2–7, in subumbels, ovoid, 7–10 mm in flower, 20–30 mm in fruit; peduncles 5–20(–60) mm, scabrous; scales green to red-brown to almost black, sometimes with green center, ovate-elliptic, 3–4.5 mm, scarious, margins narrow, to 0.2 mm, midrib prominent, fading distally or proximal scale with 2–4 thinner or equally prominent lateral ribs, apex obtuse. <b>Flowers</b>: perianth bristles 10 or more, cream, 10–20 mm, smooth; anthers 1–2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> narrowly obovoid, 2.5–3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Bogs and wet, peaty substrates
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.
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name=Eriophorum tenellum
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Cyperaceae
|phenology=Fruiting summer.
|habitat=Bogs and wet, peaty substrates
|elevation=0–500 m
|distribution=St. Pierre and Miquelon;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Conn.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Pa.;R.I.;Vt.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. N. Amer. Pl.
|publication year=1818
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Eriophorum
|species=Eriophorum tenellum
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