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Common cotton grass, South Uist
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CEP - South Uist
Common cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Loch Druidibeag, South Uist. This plant thrives in wet acidic habitats such as bogs, hence its other name 'Bog cotton'. Botanically it is not related to cotton or grass, and is in fact a member of the sedge family. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar in 1968.
13 July 1968
Common cotton grass, Munsary, Caithness
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Caithness - Munsary Peatlands Plantlife Reserve
Common cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Munsary Plantlife nature reserve, Caithness. This plant thrives in wet acidic habitats such as bogs, hence its other name 'Bog cotton'. Botanically it is not related to cotton or grass, and is in fact a member of the sedge family.
16 July 2017
Common cotton grass, Munsary, Caithness
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Caithness - Munsary Peatlands Plantlife Reserve
Common cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Munsary Plantlife nature reserve, Caithness. This plant thrives in wet acidic habitats such as bogs, hence its other name 'Bog cotton'. Botanically it is not related to cotton or grass, and is in fact a member of the sedge family.
16 July 2017
Common cotton grass, Munsary, Caithness
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Caithness - Munsary Peatlands Plantlife Reserve
Common cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Munsary Plantlife nature reserve, Caithness. Munsary is Plantlife's only nature reserve in Scotland, and by far its largest. It is part of the Caithness Flows, which are an important carbon sink, as when peat-bog loving plants die, they are decomposed anaerobically in the wet acidic environment and have their carbon content preseved as peat, instead of releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
16 July 2017
Cotton grass and cliffs, Rackwick, Hoy
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Orkney - North Hoy
Common cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) and the Old Red Sandstone cliffs east of Rackwick, Hoy. This plant thrives in wet acidic habitats such as bogs, hence its other name 'Bog cotton'. Botanically it is not related to cotton or grass, and is in fact a member of the sedge family.
05 July 2013
Common cotton grass, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Common cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium), by the Ham Burn as it exits the Mill Loch, Foula, Shetland. A member of the sedge family, this plant thrives in wet acidic habitats such as bogs, hence its other name 'Bog cotton'. Botanically it is not related either to cotton or to grass.
29 June 2014
Common cotton grass, Shetland
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Shetland - Northmavine
Common cotton grass (Eriophorum angustifolium), Back of Ollaberry, Northmavine, Shetland. Cotton grass is really a sedge, not a grass, and is not related to cotton either!
20 July 2013
Snipe, Fetlar
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Shetland - Fetlar
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) standing amongst Common Cotton Grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) in its breeding habitat, Mires of Funzie RSPB Nature Reserve, Fetlar.
16 July 2013
Snipe, Fetlar
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Shetland - Fetlar
Snipe (Gallinago gallinago) standing amongst Common Cotton Grass (Eriophorum angustifolium) in its breeding habitat, Mires of Funzie RSPB Nature Reserve, Fetlar.
16 July 2013
Common Cotton grass or Bog cotton, Lochs
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Western Isles - Lewis
Common Cotton grass or Bog cotton (Eriophorum angustifolium, a sedge not a grass, and certainly not cotton either), Lochs, Lewis. It is an acid-loving plant growing commonly on the moors of Scotland.
