Eriophorum Angustifolium (Noun)
Meaning
Having densely tufted white cottony or downlike glumes.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Eriophorum angustifolium is commonly known as cottongrass because of its closely resembling a cotton ball and is often associated with bogs in Europe.
- A dense tuft of eriophorum angustifolium, a perennial grass having cottony down bearing fruit and spike like panicles.
- The tufted sedge or cottonsedge, eriophorum angustifolium, flowers all June on a mossy slope on the upper section of the river.
- The flora of peat bogs include sedges like eriophorum angustifolium and eriophorum angustifolium.
- In 1980 eriophorum angustifolium was listed as vulnerable.