cotton grass, Eriophorum sp.
- 1931  Farther along was the corral [for reindeer]; and beyond, stretching away for five miles or so to the hills, was rolling tundra, now white with waving cotton sedge.
- 1934  They lighted their igloos with pieces of sea ice in lieu of windows, and heated them with their dish-shaped stone lamps in which seal oil was used for fuel and a piece of moss, or cotton-plant, for wick.