Cyperaceae FAMILY

Eriophorum angustifolium

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Eriophorum angustifolium is an extensively-creeping, perennial, grass-like plant growing from a rhizomatous rootstock; it produces culms around 20 -.114cm tall, spreading widely in suitable conditions[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. , 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of materials.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeWidespread through Subarctic and Temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere

HabitatPeat bogs, acid meadows, marshes and tundra[ 13 Title Hamlyn Encyclopaedia of Plants. Publication Author Triska. Dr. Publisher Hamlyn Year 1975 ISBN 0-600-33545-3 Description Very interesting reading, giving some details of plant uses and quite a lot of folk-lore. , 1962 Title Contributions to the Ethnobotany of the Cup'it Eskimo, Nunivak Island, Alaska Publication Journal of Ethnobiology 21(2): 91-127, 2001 Author Griffin D. Publisher Year 2001 ISBN Description Information on the uses of 47 species of plant indigenous to Nunivak Island in Alaska ].