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Eriocaulon decangulare
Also called Ten Angled Pipewort
Ten-angled pipewort is a small perennial bog plant in the Eriocaulaceae family, grown mainly as a wetland or pond-margin plant. The key to growing it is keeping its roots constantly moist to wet in peat or sand.
Eriocaulon decangulare, commonly known as ten-angled pipewort, hat pin and bog button, is a monocotyledonous plant native to the eastern United States, Mexico and Nicaragua. The plant's distribution is quite irregular, with several disjunct populations and a discontinuous primary range. Most of its habitat in the United States is found on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. It is found in areas of relatively low elevation and does not occur higher than 300 metres above sea level. This plant is found in peat and sand that is moist to wet, and is associated with savannahs, bogs, pinelands, ditches and the banks of cypress domes.
There are two varieties ten-angled pipewort: E. decangulare var. decangulare, and E. decangulare var. latifolium.
Eriocaulon decangulare var. decangulare is found in the United States, Mexico and Central America. In the United States, it is distributed from New Jersey south to south Florida and west to southwest Arkansas and east Texas. It grows in bogs, seepage bogs and swamps, mafic fens and seeps, wind-tidal marshes, sea-level fens, and wet pine savannas and flatwoods.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
