familyPolygonaceae
subfamilyPolygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
genusEriogonum
subgenusEriogonum subg. Oligogonum
speciesEriogonum douglasii
Eriogonum douglasii var. elkoense
Phytologia 86: 129. 2004.
Common names: Sunflower Flat wild buckwheat
Leaf-blades elliptic, densely lanate on both surfaces, sometimes slightly less so and faintly greenish adaxially. Flowers 5–8 mm; perianth cream or ochroleucous, sparsely villous.
Phenology: Flowering May–Jul.
Habitat: Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland and sagebrush communities
Elevation: 1900-2100 m
Discussion
Variety elkoense is known only from the Sunflower Flat area northeast of Wild Horse State Park in northwestern Elko County.
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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not winged +
light-brown +
glabrous +
homocarpic +
3-gonous +
3mm;4.5mm +
various +
dehiscing +
absent +
marcescent +
longer +
anthesis +
whorled +
distal +
stipelike +
pubescent +
entire +
greenish +
elliptic;spatulate +
not awn-tipped +
leaflike +
connate +
absent +
4;8 +
scale-like +
connate +
not brittle +
free +
aerial +
absent +
scabrellous +
round +
spreading +
absent +
woody +
woody +
fasciculate +
Sunflower Flat wild buckwheat +
Nev. +
nuclear +
abundant +
adnate +
pilose +
6;100 +
attenuate +
aerial +
not fistulose +
slender +
homocarpic +
bractlike +
capitate +
racemose +
not appressed +
spreading +
axillary +
reduced +
trichotomous +
enclosed +
nonmembranous +
persistent +
elliptic +
greenish +
lanate +
sheathing +
persistent +
bractlike +
awn-tipped +
plane +
2;3 +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
basal +
articulate +
absent +
accrescent +
cluster +
reflexed +
absent +
erect to deflexed +
winged +
ochroleucous;cream +
persistent +
villous +
pustulose +
accrescent +
various +
absent +
obscure +
tomentose +
Phytologia +
2004 +
fibrous +
persistent +
anthesis +
ringlike +
longitudinal +
Endemic +
recurved +
exserted +
absent +
scapose +
scandent +
absent +
peltate +
capitate +
foliaceous +
absent +
chartaceous +
arranged +
involucral +
absent +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
woody +
Eriogonum douglasii var. elkoense +
Eriogonum douglasii +
variety +
absent +
monomorphic +
connate +
dimorphic +
obovate +
coriaceous +
single +
longer +
lobelike +
not awned +
reflexed +
persistent +
membranous +
glandular-punctate +
developing +
raised +
perennial +
homophyllous +
polygamodioecious +
0.5dm;6dm +
midlength +