Eriogonum gracilipes
Eriogonum gracilipes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Polygonaceae |
Genus: | Eriogonum |
Species: | E. gracilipes
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Binomial name | |
Eriogonum gracilipes |
Eriogonum gracilipes is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name White Mountains buckwheat.
It is found in granite and sandstone gravels on the slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada.
Description[]
Eriogonum gracilipes is a small perennial herb that grows in flat mats up to 20 centimeters wide. Its leaves, each under two centimeters long, have a coat of dense white hairs and grow in packed clusters on the ground.
The plant blooms in stalks holding rounded clusters of bright raspberry red flowers, each only a few millimeters wide.
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Categories:
- Eriogonum
- Flora of California
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Inyo Mountains
- Inyo National Forest
- White Mountains (California)
- Natural history of Inyo County, California
- Polygonaceae stubs