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Eremogone franklinii

Franklin's sandwort

Habit Plants mostly tufted, bluish green.
Stems

3–10(15) cm, glabrous.

Leaves

basal arching; (6)10–20 mm; rigid, not fleshy;

tips spinose;

cauline 6–10 pairs, closely overlapping, not reduced above.

Inflorescences

subcapitate; dense or somewhat open;

flowers 3–45+;

pedicels 0.1–4 mm, glabrous.

Flowers

sepals 5–12 mm, not enlarging in fruit;

tips acuminate;

petals 7–9 mm.

Fruits

2.3–3.3 mm;

valves glabrous.

Seeds

pyriform, 1.2–1.7 mm, tuberculate.

Eremogone franklinii

Distribution
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[BONAP county map]
Discussion

2 varieties.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 553
Rich Rabeler, Ronald Hartman
Sibling taxa
E. aculeata, E. capillaris, E. congesta, E. kingii, E. pumicola
Subordinate taxa
E. franklinii var. franklinii, E. franklinii var. thompsonii
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