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Douglas's buckwheat

Habit Low, matted subshrubs 5 to 15 cm. in height.
Leaves

Numerous, linear to linear-spatulate, 5 to 20 mm. long, gray- or white-woolly on both surfaces, especially the lower.

Flowers

Flowering stems 5-10 cm. long, with a whorl of bracts at mid-length, and generally a single, terminal cup-shaped involucre of 6-10 oblong, white-wooly lobes about 3 mm. long. Flower buds blood-red, opening to cream-colored or slightly pinkish or yellowish tepals, 6-8 mm. long with a stipe-like base 1-2 mm. long

Eriogonum douglasii

Identification notes Separate from the similar Eriogonum thymoides by the involucre lobes; E. thymoides has erect lobes, E. douglasii, reflexed to spreading lobes.
Flowering time May-July
Habitat Sagebrush or juniper flats to ponderosa pine forests, often on lithosol.
Distribution
Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington, chiefly in the central region; Washington to California, east to Idaho and Nevada.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
E. baileyi, E. cernuum, E. codium, E. compositum, 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. douglasii var. douglasii
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