Eriogonum diclinum |
Eriogonum sphaerocephalum |
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rock buckwheat, round-headed eriogonum |
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Habit | Spreading to erect sub-shrub, freely branched, forming a dense, rounded clump to 4 dm. tall. | |
Leaves | Numerous in whorls at the branch tips, broadly linear, 1-3 cm. long by 3-6 mm. wide, somewhat grayish-woolly on the underside and less so on the top |
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Flowers | Flowering stems 5-10 cm. tall, terminating in an umbel of two or more pedicels, which are subtended by several leafy bracts; the involucres are cup-shaped, with 6-10 oblong lobes about 3 mm. long, about equaling the tube, reflexed to spreading; the tepals are usually yellow, but occasionally white or pinkish, 6-8 mm. long with a stipe-like base, and forming a ball-like flower cluster. |
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Eriogonum diclinum |
Eriogonum sphaerocephalum |
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Identification notes | The dense, rounded clump of fine branches covered with bright yellow spheres of flowers should identify this species. | |
Flowering time | May-July | |
Habitat | Sagebrush or juniper flats to ponderosa pine forests at low elevations. | |
Distribution | Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to Idaho and Nevada.
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Origin | Native | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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