Green Keeled Cottongrass

green-keeled cottongrass

tassel cottongrass

thinleaf cottonsedge

thin-leaved cotton-grass

thinleaved cottongrass

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Green-keeled cottongrass is native to northern North America. It occurs from Alaska south to Washington, east to New Jersey, and north to Newfoundland and Labrador. It has been extirpated from Illinois [26].

Map courtesy of USDA, NRCS. 2013. The PLANTS Database. National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC. (2013, August 1).
States and provinces [49]:
United States: AK, CO, CT, IA, ID, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VT, WA, WI, WY
Canada: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT

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Graminoid INFORMATION AVAILABLE:
In June of 2013 an extensive search was done to locate information on green-keeled cottongrass (see FEIS's list of source literature), with few results. The following paragraphs provide details of the available information. DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE SPECIES: Eriophorum viridicarinatum GENERAL DISTRIBUTION:
Green-keeled cottongrass is native to northern North America. It occurs from Alaska south to Washington, east to New Jersey, and north to Newfoundland and Labrador. It has been extirpated from Illinois [26].

Eriophorum latifolium Hoppe var. viridi-carinatum Engelm. [14]

Eriophorum latifolium Hoppe var. viridi-carinatum (Engelm.) Fernald [23]

Eriophorum latifolium Hoppe var. viridicarinatum Engelm. [22]

Eriophorum viridi-carinatum (Engelm.) Fernald [3,13,23,38,45,51]

Eriophorum viridicarinatum forma viridicarinatum [47]

Eriophorum viridicarinatum forma fellowsii Fernald [46,47]

The scientific name of green-keeled cottongrass is Eriophorum viridicarinatum (Engelm.) Fernald (Cyperaceae) [5,10,14,18,21,22,26,27,28,35,43,46,50,52].