Eriogonum strictum

Blue mountain buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Blue mountain buckwheat is a native perennial herb found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, and Cascade Range in montane and alpine habitats. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces yellow to white or rose-purple flowers in clustered inflorescences up to 25 centimeters wide. Growing with low, spreading stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall and 10 to 100 centimeters in diameter, it forms dense, compact clumps. Its basal leaves are small, measuring 0.5 to 2.5 centimeters long and typically covered in a soft, feltlike tomentose surface. The fruit is a small, glabrous seed about 3 to 3.5 millimeters long.

Bioregions: KR, n NCoRO, NCoRH, CaR, ne SNH, MP

California counties: Lassen, Nevada, Sierra, Plumas, Modoc

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