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rush buckwheat, tall buckwheat
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Sturdy perennial from a thick taproot with wiry, glabrous and glaucous flowering stems 3-8 dm. tall. |
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Basal, ovate, 7-15 cm. long, truncate at base, slightly hairy by green on both surfaces, with petioles about as long as the blade. |
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Inflorescence large, open, loosely cymose, the cup-shaped involucre about 3 mm. long and few-flowered; the tepals 3 mm. long, white to cream but pinkish in the bud, without a stipe at the base, pubescent on the lower half. |
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Eriogonum gordonii |
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Separate from Eriogonum nudum by the leaves and flower clusters. E. nudum has more-or-less oblong leaves that are white-woolly underneath on petioles at least twice as long as the blade; the flowers are usually in tight, globose clusters. |
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June-August |
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Sand and gravel slopes and flats, grasslands, sagebrush desert, ponderosa pine forest openings, and montane ridges. |
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Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; Washington to California, east to southern Idaho and Nevada.
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Native |
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Not of concern |
E. baileyi, 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. 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 |
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Flora NW
PNW Herbaria
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist
USDA Plants Database
CA
OR
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