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Eriophorum scheuchzeri
White Cottongrass · Dense cotton-grass · Shealted cotton-grass · Scheuchzer's cottongrass · One-spike cottongrass
Tier 2 Difficulty: easy Water: low Light: full_sun
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Hardiness
Zone 1–6
Click count
123
Observations
829
Description
Source: leafsnapEriophorum scheuchzeri is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names Scheuchzer's cottongrass and white cottongrass. It has an arctic circumpolar and circumboreal distribution in the Northern Hemisphere. It can be found in Alaska, across Canada, in the Arctic islands, Greenland, Iceland, and across Eurasia. Disjunct occurrences exist in the Rocky Mountains, in the high mountains of southern Europe (the Pyrenees, Alps, and the Caucasus) and on Mount Daisetsu in Japan and some other Asian mountains.
Care Guide
💧 Water
☀️ Light Full sun
Ideal: Full sun
🌡️ Temperature 0–25°C
Ideal temperature: 0–25°C
💨 Humidity
Humidity:
🪴 Soil
🌱 Fertilizer
🪴 Pot & Repot
✂️ Pruning
🌿 Propagating
🐛 Diseases & pets
☠️ Toxicity
Characteristics
- Plant Type
- Grass
- Life Cycle
- Perennial
- Genus
- Eriophorum
- Family
- Cyperaceae
- Hardiness Zone
- 1-6
- Mature Height
- 61 cm
- Mature Spread
- 10 cm to 20 cm
- Leaf Color
- Green, Blue
- Leaf Type
- Evergreen
- Flower Color
- White
- Flower Size
- 1.52 cm to 3.05 cm
- Bloom Time
- Early summer, Mid summer
- Planting Time
- Spring
- Harvest Time
- Late summer, Early fall
Tags (6)
Common Names (5)
en White Cottongrass
en Dense cotton-grass
en Shealted cotton-grass
en Scheuchzer's cottongrass
en One-spike cottongrass