Johanneshowellia puberula
downy buckwheat, red creek buckwheat, red creek Howell's-buckwheat
0.3–0.8 dm.
blades obovate to rounded, 0.5–1.5 × 0.5–1.5 cm.
spreading, open, 5–25 cm;
bracts linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2–5(–9) × 1–2(–2.5) mm, somewhat foliaceous, puberulent.
perianth white to pale yellow, becoming rose or red in fruit, 1.5–2 mm, minutely pustulose basally and along midribs;
tepals slightly dimorphic, those of outer whorl narrowly ovate, slightly auriculate basally with undulate-crisped margins in fruit, those of inner whorl narrowly oblanceolate, often shorter than those of outer whorl;
filaments 0.8–1.2 mm.
1–1.5 mm.
bracts oblanceolate, 0.5–1.2 × 0.1–0.3 mm, villous abaxially, outermost one 2- or 3-lobed apically.
Johanneshowellia puberula
Johanneshowellia puberula is infrequent to occasionally locally common. Populations are widely scattered from the Cottonwood Mountains of Inyo County, California, across northern Clark, southern Eureka, Lincoln, Nye, and White Pine counties of Nevada, into Beaver, Iron, Millard, and Washington counties in Utah.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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