Eriogonum rosense var. rosense
Mount rose wild buckwheat, Mount Rose Wild Buckwheat
Family: Polygonaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Mount rose wild buckwheat is a California native perennial found in northern central Sierra Nevada and northern Sierra Nevada east in sandy or gravelly habitats at elevations of 2,500 to 4,000 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces bright yellow to red-yellow flowers in compact head-like clusters approximately 0.6 to 1.5 centimeters wide. Growing as a low mat-forming perennial with stems 10 to 9 centimeters tall, it has distinctly glandular-hairy stems and branches. Its basal leaves are small and dense, with blades 0.4 to 1.5 centimeters long, covered in soft tomentose (woolly) indumentum. The compact plant forms low clusters up to 5 centimeters in diameter, creating a delicate ground-hugging arrangement in high-elevation alpine environments.
Habitat: Sand or gravel
Bloom period: Jul-Sep
Elevation: (2300)2500-4000 m
Bioregions: n&c SNH, n SNE
California counties: Mono, Shasta, Sierra, El Dorado, Alpine, Inyo, Fresno, Tuolumne
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