Eriophorum

Accepted species 24 Documented here 10 Family Cyperaceae

Accepted species 24 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Eriophorum vaginatum L. 902 documented
Eriophorum angustifolium Honck. 642 documented
Eriophorum virginicum L. 600 documented
Eriophorum scheuchzeri Hoppe 123 documented
Eriophorum viridicarinatum (Engelm.) Fernald 94 documented
Eriophorum latifolium Hoppe 71 documented
Eriophorum chamissonis C.A.Mey. 60 documented
Eriophorum gracile Roth 47 documented
Eriophorum tenellum Nutt. 44 documented
Eriophorum brachyantherum Trautv. & C.A.Mey. 10 documented
Eriophorum callitrix Cham. ex C.A.Mey. 1 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum × beringianum Raymond 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum × churchillianum Lepage 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum × fellowsii (Fernald) M.S.Novos. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum × gracilifolium M.S.Novos. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum × medium Andersson 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum × polystachiovaginatum Beauverd 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum × pylaieanum Raymond 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum × rousseauianum Raymond 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum arcticum (M.S.Novos.) Schekhovts. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum humile Turcz. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum tolmatchevii M.S.Novos. 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum transiens Raymond 0 below the evidence gate
Eriophorum triste (Th.Fr.) Hadac & Á.Löve 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.