Eriogonum gracilipes
White mountains wild buckwheat, White Mountains Wild Buckwheat
Family: Polygonaceae · Type: perennial · Native
White mountains wild buckwheat is a California native perennial found in the eastern Sierra Nevada and White Mountains on rocky and gravelly sites at elevations of 2,900 to 3,900 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces white to rose-colored flowers in compact heads 1 to 2 centimeters wide. Growing as a low mat 0.5 to 2 centimeters in diameter, it develops scape-like stems 3 to 10 centimeters tall that are glandular-hairy. Its basal leaves are densely tomentose, measuring 1 to 1.5 centimeters long and less than 0.6 centimeters wide. The small involucres surrounding its flower clusters are thin and generally glandular-hairy, with flowers measuring 2 to 3 millimeters long.
Habitat: Gravel or rocks
Bloom period: Jul-Sep
Elevation: 2900-3900 m
Bioregions: c&s SNH (e slope), n W&I (White Mtns)
California counties: Inyo, Mono, Tulare, Lassen
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