Eriogonum gracilipes

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Eriogonum gracilipes is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name White Mountains buckwheat.

Eriogonum gracilipes
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Polygonaceae
Genus: Eriogonum
Species:
E. gracilipes
Binomial name
Eriogonum gracilipes

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.

Description

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Eriogonum gracilipes is a small perennial herb that 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.

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