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§1 Plant

Eriophorum angustifolium Honck. ssp. angustifolium

vernacular tall cottongrass — subspecies · Cyperaceae


USDA
ERANA3
GBIF
7227060
Rank
subspecies
tall cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium ssp. angustifolium)
Platephotograph · Bogdan V. KryzhatyukCC BY-NC-SA source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Graminoid
Duration
Perennial
Group
Monocot
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Eriophorum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Native
  • CAN Canada Native
  • GL Greenland Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
§2b

County-level range

· 215 counties across 14 states/territories
Legend Native · 215 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 215 counties across 14 states/territories.

Alaska view state ↗ 19 N
Illinois view state ↗ 12 N
Indiana view state ↗ 7 N
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N
Maine view state ↗ 8 N
Michigan view state ↗ 30 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 53 N
Montana view state ↗ 11 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 N
New York view state ↗ 8 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 19 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 4 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 39 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ERANA3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7227060 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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