XEriogonum caespitosum - Matted BuckwheatX
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Matted Buckwheat -or- Clumping Buckwheat (Eriogonum caespitosum), family Polygonaceae (Buckwheat)
The buckwheat family includes roughly 1200 species that are distributed among 48 genera. Eriogonum is the largest of those. There are no records of Native American uses.
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Plant location: Hwy 168 toward the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest - California - May 2, 2017
Elevation approximately 7000'. Found in the following United States: Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming.Plant -
Bloom season: April through July, commonly
Habitats include sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland, saltbush, sagebrush, and mountain mahogany communities, oak, pinyon and/or juniper and montane conifer woodlands - per Flora of North America.Foliage -
Hwy 168 toward the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest - California - May 2, 2017
Plant shown in scale using our techincal measuring instrument - fingernail file. The plant shown in this frame was on the small side. We later saw more specimens that were spread out in larger circumference but all plants bore flowers that were low to the ground. -
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