cotton-grass

From amid a tuft of cotton-grass which bore it up out of the slime some dark thing was projecting.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

Examples for plants include the cotton-grass Eriophorum vaginatum, and Dryas species.

Arctic environments north of the treeline 2009

Other typical wetland plants include various sedges, like bottle sedge Carex rostrata, white sedge C. canescens, common bog-sedge C. limosa, tall bog-sedge C. magellanica, marsh cinquefoil Potentilla palustris, common cotton-grass Eriophorum angustifolium, bogbean Menyanthes trifoliata, and cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccus.

Kvarken Archipelago High Coast, Finland and Sweden 2008

The weather has been fine, and the hillside is dry, but a little way down the slope the cotton-grass shows fluffy-white among the reeds and dwarf thickets of bog myrtle.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

The weather has been fine, and the hillside is dry, but a little way down the slope the cotton-grass shows fluffy-white among the reeds and dwarf thickets of bog myrtle.

Rose cottage Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1997

‘That, and the clump of heather in the shape of a half-moon, and the cotton-grass in that circular swamp and the little trench where peat has been dug.’

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

Phoebe hesitated, and then some instinct, finer than her comprehension of it, prompted her to a refusal, and the cotton-grass was left to swing its gossamer globes of light till the sun should have dipped below the rim of the moor.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

A few forlorn tufts of cotton-grass still blew out in the languid breeze and the yellow stars of the cinquefoil shone from the moss, but disfigured by the dozens of evil-looking black slugs, three or four inches long, that lay motionless all over the marsh.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

The marsh was all pied with white -- pearly white of blowing cotton-grass; thick, deader white of water-cress in full flower; faint blurred white of thousands of the heath-bedstraw's tiny blossoms.

Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

Reynard is making for Coombes's Wood, but the earths were all stopped this morning at four o'clock; so away he speeds again, leaving the rectory and its lovely meadows and the dear old church below us -- away past the bogs where the cotton-grass and the flycatcher, the blue gentian and the yellow asphodel, grow among the treacherous tussocks -- away to Eversley Wood.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various