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Eriogonum gilmanii
S. Stokes
Family:
Polygonaceae
Gilman's Wild Buckwheat
Teague Embrey
FNA
Resources
James L. Reveal in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Herbs,
cespitose or pulvinate, occasionally scapose, 0.1-0.5 × 1-3 dm, tomentose.
Stems
spreading, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/ 5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, spreading to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.1-0.2 dm, tomentose.
Leaves
basal, 1 per node; petiole 0.2-0.5 cm, tomentose; blade elliptic, 0.2-0.4 × 0.1-0.2 cm, tomentose, margins plane.
Inflorescences
cymose-umbellate or capitate, (0.4-)0.8-1.5 × 0.5-1.5 cm; branches umbellate, tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular to linear-lanceolate, 1-5 mm.
Peduncles
spreading, 0.1-0.3(-0.5) cm, tomentose.
Involucres
1 per node, turbinate, 1.5-2 × 1-1.5 mm, tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.4-0.7 mm.
Flowers
3.5-5 mm; perianth yellowish, with reddish spot, glabrous; tepals connate proximally, dimorphic, those of outer whorl orbiculate and globose, 3-4 × 3-4 mm, those of inner whorl oblanceolate, 3.5-5 × 1-1.5 mm; stamens exserted, 3-4 mm; filaments pubescent proximally.
Achenes
brown, 2.5-3 mm, glabrous.
Flowering May-Sep. Limestone gravelly to rocky slopes and ridges, sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands; 1500-2000 m; Calif.
Eriogonum gilmanii
is a rare, localized species. It is known from the Cottonwood, Last Chance, and Panamint mountains of Inyo County.
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