Alpine bulrush or cotton deergrass
(''Trichophorum alpinum'') is a species of flowering plant in the
sedge family. It has a
circumboreal
The Circumboreal Region in phytogeography is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in Eurasia and North America, as delineated by such geobotanists as Josias Braun-Blanquet and Armen Takhtajan.
It is the largest floristic region in t ...
distribution, occurring throughout the northern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. It is present in Europe, Asia, and northern North America.
[Williams, Tara Y. 1990]
''Trichophorum alpinum''.
In: Fire Effects Information System, nline U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory.
This sedge produces stems up to tall from a short
rhizome
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...
. The leaves are no more than a centimeter long. The flowers have cottony white bristles that may extend past the spikelet.
[''Trichophorum alpinum''.]
Flora of North America.
This plant grows in bogs and calcareous mountain meadows.[
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References
External links
The Nature Conservancy
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alpinum
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus