Eriogonum thymoides |
Eriogonum ripleyi |
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thyme buckwheat, thyme-leaf wild buckwheat |
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Habit | Intricately branched, low and spreading to erect shrub 5-15 cm. tall, somewhat gray-woolly to silky throughout. | |
Leaves | Leaves many, linear to linear-spatulate, 3-10 mm. long, usually revolute, somewhat wooly beneath and silky above. |
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Flowers | Flowering stems 3-8 cm. tall, always with a whorl of leaves about mid-length; involucres single and terminal, top-shaped, 3-5 mm. long, the teeth 6-8, erect, triangular, 1 mm. long; perianth with a stipitate base 0.5-1 mm. long, densely hairy, the 6 segments obovate, yellow or white to rose-red, 4-6 mm. long; plants dioecious, the staminate flowers with 9 stamens, the filaments hairs only at the base, the pistillate flowers with stout, spreading styles 0.5-1 mm. long. |
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Fruits | Achenes pubescent above |
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Eriogonum thymoides |
Eriogonum ripleyi |
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Identification notes | Separate from the similar Eriogonum douglasii by the involucre lobes; E. thymoides has erect lobes, E. douglasii, reflexed to spreading lobes. | |
Flowering time | April-June | |
Habitat | Sagebrush deserts, dry ponderosa pine forest openings, and open ridges in lower mountains. | |
Distribution | Occurring east of the Cascades crest in central Washington; central Washington to Oregon, east to Idaho.
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Origin | Native | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
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