Eriogonum ampullaceum
Eriogonum ampullaceum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Polygonaceae |
Genus: | Eriogonum |
Species: | E. ampullaceum
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Binomial name | |
Eriogonum ampullaceum J.T.Howell
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Eriogonum ampullaceum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Mono buckwheat.
Distribution[]
The plant is native to the western Great Basin region, on the lower eastern Sierra Nevada slopes, and eastwards along the border of California and Nevada.
It grows in Great Basin sagebrush scrub habitats, in sandy soils of high desert and plateau areas.
Description[]
Eriogonum ampullaceum is an annual herb. The leaves are located about the base of the flowering stem. They are generally rounded, woolly in texture, and just a few centimeters wide.
It produces a yellow-green or reddish spindly, branching inflorescence up to 30 centimeters tall. The white flowers are less than 2 millimeters wide and appear in clusters.
External links[]
- Calflora Database: Eriogonum ampullaceum (Mono buckwheat)
- Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Eriogonum ampullaceum
- U.C. CalPhotos gallery of Eriogonum ampullaceum (Mono buckwheat)
Categories:
- Eriogonum
- Flora of California
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of the Great Basin
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Natural history of Mono County, California
- Taxa named by John Thomas Howell
- Polygonaceae stubs