Eriogonum heracleoides |
Eriogonum natum |
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bractless parsnip-flowered wild buckwheat, parsnip-flowered buckwheat, parsnip-flowered eriogonum |
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Habit | Perennial with a branched, woody base forming clumps up to 6 dm. broad and 4 dm. high, generally white-woolly throughout. | |
Leaves | Numerous, basal, on petioles several times as long as the blade; blades linear-lanceolate to broadly oblanceolate, grayish-lanate on both surfaces or only sparsely tomentose and much less grayish above. |
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Flowers | Peduncles 10-30 cm. long, usually with several leafy bracts about mid-length; inflorescence a compound umbel with narrow bracts at the base; involucres woolly, cup-shaped, the several lobes 2-3 mm. long; tepals white to cream, occasionally pinkish, glabrous externally, with a stipe-like base 1-3 mm. long. |
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Eriogonum heracleoides |
Eriogonum natum |
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Identification notes | The whorl of bracts at mid-stem is a good identifying feature if they are present, but they are often lacking in Kittitas, Chelan and Douglas Counties. The long, narrow, woolly leaves are distinctive in those areas | |
Flowering time | May-July | |
Habitat | Deeper soil of shrub-steppe to ponderosa pine forests and rocky ridges at middle elevation in the mountains. | |
Distribution | Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.
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Origin | Native | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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