Pipewort

Pipewort
Pipewort
Photo courtesy Wisconsin State Herbarium and Andrew Meeks
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Pipeworts are common and easily confused with bog button (Lachnocaulon) and hatpins (Syngonanthus). They all grow small whitish globes on the tops of stems. The pipeworts require wet conditions.

Family: Pipewort (Eriocaulaceae)
Flowering: June-October
Field Marks: Pipeworts are recognized by their single white or gray heads of flowers and their leafless stems.

Small-Head Pipewort [English]: Eriocaulon microcephalum
Small-Head Rockrose [English]: Helianthella microcephala
Small-Head Rush [English]: Juncus brachycephalus
Small-Head Sedge [English]: Carex illota ...

John's Wort, Periwinkle, Petty Spurge, Petty Whin, Pheasant's-Eye, Pick-a-back Plant, Pigmy Rush, Pignut, Pill Sedge, Pineapple Mayweed, Pink Oxalis, Pink Purslane, Pink Water Speedwell, Pipewort, Pirri-pirri Bur, Pirri-pirri Bur, Pittosporum, ...

See also: May, Green, Grass, Sedge, Rush