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Bailey's buckwheat

spotted buckwheat

Eriogonum baileyi

Eriogonum maculatum

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, grassland, and shrub-steppe.
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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Collected once (1884) in Yakima County in Washington and now considered extirpated; southeastern Oregon to southwestern Idaho, south to Baja California, Mexioca and east to New Mexico.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Not of concern Presumed extirpated in Washington (WANHP)
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. cernuum, E. codium, E. compositum, E. douglasii, E. elatum, E. flavum, E. heracleoides, 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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