Eriogonum giganteum

Taxobox
name = "Eriogonum giganteum"

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image_width = 260px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Polygonaceae
genus = "Eriogonum"
species = "E. giganteum"
binomial = "Eriogonum giganteum"
binomial_authority = S.Wats.

"Eriogonum giganteum" is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name St. Catherine's lace. This shrub is endemic to the Channel Islands of California. It is variable in size, from a thin half a meter in height and width to a sprawling or rounded bush over three meters high and wide. The leathery, woolly, oval-shaped leaves are clustered sparsely along the mostly naked branches. The plant flowers densely in carpets of clustered tiny flowers, each hairy pinkish white flower only a few millimeters across. One variety of this geographically limited plant, the Santa Barbara Island buckwheat (var. "compactum"), is particularly rare.

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5936,5994,6051 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ERGI2 USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250060291 Flora of North America Profile]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Eriogonum+giganteum Photo gallery]