Index / Search / Eriophorum tenellum
§1 Plant
Eriophorum tenellum Nutt.
vernacular fewnerved cottongrass — species · Cyperaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Graminoid
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Monocot
- Family
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Eriophorum
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Native
County-level range
· 151 counties across 12 states/territories§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 151 counties across 12 states/territories.
Illinois view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 17 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 12 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 30 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chenango 36017
- Clinton 36019
- Delaware 36025
- Essex 36031
- Franklin 36033
- Fulton 36035
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Nassau 36059
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Seneca 36099
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 9 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ERTE12 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2730177 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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