High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eriophorum callitrix, commonly known as Arctic cotton, Arctic cottongrass, or suputi in Inuktitut, is an Arctic plant in the Cyperaceae family. This plant is food for migrating snow geese and caribou. The Inuit used the seed heads as wicks in oil lamps. Clumps were stuffed into babies' pants and then tossed when soiled. Cyperaceae is a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges, which superficially resemble grasses or rushes. The family is large, with some 5,500 species described in about 109 genera (Govaerts et al., 2007).

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