Eriogonum rotundifolium |
Eriogonum vimineum |
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broom buckwheat |
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Habit | Upright annual 5-50 cm. tall with a single stem topped by a freely-branched inflorescence, and with numerous, petiolate leaves in a whorl a short distance above the base. | |
Leaves | Sub-basal, the blade oval to broadly elliptic, 5-30 mm. long, gray-woolly beneath and gray-green above, the slender petiole 1-3 times as long as the blade. |
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Flowers | Inflorescence freely-branched, with involucres 1 per node and sessile at the branch junctions and along the branches and on the branch tips, varying from cylindric and strongly ribbed up to 3 mm. long to cup-shaped and without ribs, 1.5-2 mm. long, and with the 5 lobes rounded and 1/5 the total length; tepals 1.5-2.5 mm. long, narrowly cup-shaped, white, pink or yellow. |
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Fruits | Achene 3-angled. |
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Eriogonum rotundifolium |
Eriogonum vimineum |
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Flowering time | June-September | |
Habitat | Sagebrush deserts and dry ponderosa pine forest openings; tolerant of dry, disturbed conditions. | |
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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