Eriogonum multiflorum

Bentham

Trans. Linn. Soc. London 17: 413. 1836.

Common names: Many-flowered wild buckwheat
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 326.

Herbs, 5–20 × 3–6 dm, reddish. Aerial flowering-stems slender or stout, 4–15 dm, floccose to tomentose. Leaves: petiole 0.3–1 cm (rosette), or 0.2–0.5 cm (cauline), tomentose to floccose; blade narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or oblong to narrowly ovate, 1.5–5 (–8) × 0.3–2.2 (–2.5) cm, densely tomentose abaxially, tomentose or floccose to glabrate adaxially, sometimes thickened and auriculate-subclasping proximally; margins entire or crisped, rarely revolute. Inflorescences 50–200 × 20–100 cm; bracts triangular, 1–3 mm. Peduncles 0.1–0.4 cm, tomentose to floccose. Involucres turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, 2–2.5 × 1.5–2 (–2.5) mm, tomentose to floccose or occasionally glabrous abaxially, tomentose adaxially; teeth 5, 0.3–0.8 mm. Flowers 1.5–2.5 mm; perianth white to reddish-brown; tepals: those of outer whorl oblong-cordate, 1.5–2 × 1.5–2 mm, those of inner whorl lanceolate to oblong, 1.5–2.5 × 0.2–0.5 mm; stamens slightly exserted, 1.5–3 mm. Achenes 1.5–2 mm.

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Leaf blades narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 2-5(-8) × 0.3-0.9(-1.5) cm, not thickened, attenuate to rarely rounded proximally, not auriculate-subclasping Eriogonum multiflorum var. multiflorum
1 Leaf blades oblong to narrowly ovate, 1.5-4(-4.5) × 1-2.2(-2.5) cm, occasionally thickened, auriculate-subclasping proximally Eriogonum multiflorum var. riograndis

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... more about "Eriogonum multiflorum"
included +  and exserted +
3-gonous +
usually red +  and cream or yellow +
oblong +  and ellipsoid or oval +
James L. Reveal +
Bentham +
deciduous +  and persistent +
stipelike +
Eriogonum sect. Micrantha +
auriculate-subclasping +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
floccose +  and glabrate +
narrowly lanceolate;narrowly elliptic or oblong +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br />) +
not awn-tipped +
glandular +, pubescent +  and glabrous +
triangular +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
not brittle +
tomentose +  and floccose +
scabrellous +
spreading +  and erect +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
Many-flowered wild buckwheat +
Ark. +, La. +, Okla. +  and Tex. +
unisexual +, , +  and bisexual +
not attenuate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
not disarticulating +  and solid +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
stout;slender +
unwinged +  and winged +
black +, red +, brown +  and yellowish +
exserted +  and included +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
spheroidal +, 4-gonous +, lenticular +, biconvex +, discoid +, 3-gonous +  and 2-gonous +
compact +  and open +
capitate +  and subcapitate +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> (200 cm2,000 mm <br />2 m <br />) +
cymelike +, paniclelike +, racemelike +  and spikelike +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
connate +  and free +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
tomentose +  and floccose or occasionally glabrous abaxially +
turbinate +  and turbinate-campanulate +
nonmembranous +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
in whorls +, opposite +, alternate +  and rosulate +
marcescent +
persistent +
cauline +  and basal +
bractlike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
crisped +  and entire +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
accrescent +
curved +  and straight +
tomentose;floccose +
erect to deflexed +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
white;reddish-brown +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
cylindric +  and urceolate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
with extrafloral nectaries +  and not articulate +
tomentose +  and floccose +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
homostylous +  and 3-carpellate +
Trans. Linn. Soc. London +
, +  and solid +
slender;stout +
persistent +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
penicillate +, fimbriate +  and capitate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
consisting of a series +  and tubular +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
chambered +  and solid +
slender +  and stout +
Eriogonum multiflorum +
Eriogonum subg. Micrantha +
species +
emarginate +  and entire +
1/4 +  and 1/3 +
lobed +  and laciniate +
coriaceous +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
annual +  and biennial +
floccose +  and tomentose +
3 +, 2 +  and 1 +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +