Woolly heads in bogs – hare’s-tail cottongrass
Photos: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis from forum
Heads of hare’s-tail cottongrass in bud.
Willow catkins are already in vases, but there are other plants too that have just woken up. Ramblers in bog areas during the long weekend can look out for a flowering woolly spikelet: the hare’s-tail cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum). This member of the sedge family (Cyperaceae) forms sizeable tussocks and has a single white tuft at the tip of each straw. But be cautious on going to look closer at them, after all you are in a bogland.
Hare’s-tail cottongrass.
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