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Bailey's buckwheat

nodding buckwheat

Eriogonum baileyi

Eriogonum cernuum

Flowering time April-June (September-October) May-June
Habitat Sand or gravel flats and slopes, grassland and shrub-steppe, open forest, and washes. Sand, gravel or clay slopes and flats, shrub-steppe, and grasslands.
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in the central region of Washington; northern Washington to California, east to Idaho and Utah.
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Occurring only in Franklin County, where disjunct from primary range of species; Washington to California, east to the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern Not of concern
Sibling taxa
E. cernuum, E. codium, E. compositum, E. douglasii, E. elatum, E. flavum, E. heracleoides, E. maculatum, E. marifolium, E. microtheca, E. niveum, E. nudum, E. ovalifolium, E. pyrolifolium, E. sphaerocephalum, E. strictum, E. thymoides, E. umbellatum, E. vimineum
E. baileyi, E. codium, E. compositum, E. douglasii, E. elatum, E. flavum, E. heracleoides, E. maculatum, E. marifolium, E. microtheca, E. niveum, E. nudum, E. ovalifolium, E. pyrolifolium, E. sphaerocephalum, E. strictum, E. thymoides, E. umbellatum, E. vimineum
Subordinate taxa
E. baileyi var. baileyi
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