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Crater Lake sandwort, pumice sandwort

Habit Plants tufted, green.
Stems

10–20 cm, glandular-hairy.

Leaves

basal ascending to somewhat spreading, flexuous, recurving in multiple directions, 15–35 mm, generally fleshy;

tips blunt to apiculate;

cauline (2)3–5 pairs, not closely overlapping, not reduced above

Flowers

sepals 3–3.8 mm, 4–4.5 mm in fruit;

tips obtuse or rounded;

petals 2–4.5 mm.

Fruits

4.5–5.5 mm;

valves glabrous.

Seeds

oblong to pyriform, 1.8–2.4 mm; smooth to tuberculate.

. inflorescences

open;

flowers 7–40+;

pedicels 3–20 mm, glandular-hairy.

Eremogone pumicola

Eremogone eastwoodiae

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Discussion

Rocky flats, talus slopes, pumice soils, coniferous forests. Flowering May–Sep. 1300–2400 m. Casc, Sisk. Native. Endemic to Oregon.

Eremogone pumicola is endemic to Oregon.

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