Eriogonum gracilipes

Taxobox
name = "Eriogonum gracilipes"


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

"Eriogonum gracilipes" is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name White Mountains buckwheat. It is found in granite and sandstone gravels on the slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. This small perennial herb grows in flat mats up to 20 centimeters wide. Its leaves, each under two centimeters long, have a coat of dense white hairs and grow in packed clusters on the ground. The plant blooms in stalks holding rounded clusters of bright raspberry red flowers, each only a few millimeters wide.

External links

* [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?5936,5994,6061 Jepson Manual Treatment]
* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ERGR11 USDA Plants Profile]
* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250060302 Flora of North America Profile]
* [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Eriogonum+gracilipes Photo gallery]