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Eriastrum Filifolium
''Eriastrum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the phlox family which are known commonly as woollystars. These wildflowers are somewhat diverse in appearance but are usually erect, thin-stemmed herbs which bear purple to white blooms. Most species have inflorescences which are webbed with a woolly mesh of white fibers. Woollystars are native to western North America. Species: *'' Eriastrum abramsii'' - Abrams' woollystar *'' Eriastrum brandegeeae'' - Brandegee's woollystar *'' Eriastrum densifolium'' - giant woollystar *'' Eriastrum diffusum'' - miniature woollystar *'' Eriastrum eremicum'' - desert woollystar *'' Eriastrum filifolium'' - lavender woollystar *'' Eriastrum hooveri'' - Hoover's woollystar *''Eriastrum luteum ''Eriastrum luteum'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names yellow woollystar and yellow-flowered eriastrum. This wildflower is endemic to California where it is known only from Monterey and San Luis Ob ...'' - y ...
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Eriastrum Eremicum
''Eriastrum eremicum'', the desert woollystar, is an annual plant An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies. The length of growing seasons and period in which they take place vary according to geographical ... in the phlox family ( Polemoniaceae) found in the Sonoran Desert.Sonoran Desert Wildflowers, Richard Spellenberg, 2nd ed., 2012, It often grows in great abundance covering the desert floor in a blanket of sky blue color. References eremicum Flora of the Sonoran Deserts {{Polemoniaceae-stub ...
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Eriastrum Hooveri
''Eriastrum hooveri'' is a rare species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Hoover's woollystar. It is endemic to the South Coast Ranges of California from San Benito to Los Angeles Counties, where it grows in grassy open habitat. It is an annual herb producing a wiry, usually woolly stem up to about 15 centimeters tall. The leaves are linear and threadlike, less than three centimeters long, and sometimes divided into two thready lobes. The inflorescence is a woolly cluster of narrow, leaflike bracts laced with webby fibers. The flowers are white and just a few millimeters in length. This plant was considered to be in serious jeopardy in the 1980s when many of its populations, most of which occurred on private and unprotected land, were in immediate danger of being destroyed by one or more threats, including conversion of the land for agricultural use, petroleum drilling, development for housing, grazing, agricultural pollution, invasive plants ...
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Eriastrum
''Eriastrum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the phlox family which are known commonly as woollystars. These wildflowers are somewhat diverse in appearance but are usually erect, thin-stemmed herbs which bear purple to white blooms. Most species have inflorescences which are webbed with a woolly mesh of white fibers. Woollystars are native to western North America. Species: *'' Eriastrum abramsii'' - Abrams' woollystar *'' Eriastrum brandegeeae'' - Brandegee's woollystar *'' Eriastrum densifolium'' - giant woollystar *'' Eriastrum diffusum'' - miniature woollystar *'' Eriastrum eremicum'' - desert woollystar *'' Eriastrum filifolium'' - lavender woollystar *'' Eriastrum hooveri'' - Hoover's woollystar *'' Eriastrum luteum'' - yellow woollystar *'' Eriastrum pluriflorum'' - Tehachapi woollystar *'' Eriastrum sapphirinum'' - sapphire woollystar *'' Eriastrum sparsiflorum'' - Great Basin woollystar *'' Eriastrum virgatum'' - wand woollystar *'' Eriastrum wilcoxii'' - Wilcox's wo ...
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Eriastrum Wilcoxii
''Eriastrum wilcoxii'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Wilcox's woollystar. It is native to the western United States, where it grows in various types of desert and plateau habitat. It is an annual herb producing a thin, branching, usually woolly stem up to about 30 centimeters tall. The leaves are narrow and thready, up to 3 centimeters long, and sometimes divided into two or more lobes. The inflorescence is a woolly cluster of narrow, leaflike bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...s laced with webby fibers. The small flowers have yellow throats and blue corollas with lobes up to half a centimeter long. References External linksJepson Manual Treatment
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Eriastrum Virgatum
''Eriastrum virgatum'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name wand woollystar. It is endemic to California, where it is known the coastline and coastal mountain ranges of Monterey and San Benito Counties. It grows in chaparral and coastal and inland scrub habitat. It is an annual herb producing a thin, usually woolly stem up to about 40 centimeters tall. The leaves are narrow and thick, up to 5 centimeters long, and sometimes divided into two narrow lobes. The inflorescence is a woolly cluster of narrow, leaflike bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...s laced with webby fibers. The flowers have yellow throats and bright blue corollas with lobes up to a centimeter long. External linksJepson Manual Treatment
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Eriastrum Sparsiflorum
''Eriastrum sparsiflorum'' is an annual plant in the phlox family ( Polemoniaceae) native to the Great Basin The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic basin, endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets, in North America. It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja California ... of the Western United States.Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, Morris Book Publishing LLC., References sparsiflorum Flora of the Great Basin {{Polemoniaceae-stub ...
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Eriastrum Sapphirinum
''Eriastrum sapphirinum'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name sapphire woollystar. This wildflower is endemic to California where it is found in many habitats throughout the state. It is an annual reaching anywhere from 5 to 40 centimeters in height, forming clumps or singular spindly stems. The stem is erect and may be reddish to green, and has the occasional threadlike leaf with sparse hairs to a coat of dense wool. The inflorescences at the tips of the stems are packed with pointed, leaflike green to red bracts and funnel-shaped flowers. The corolla of the flower has five lobes each one half to one centimeter long and pale to bright blue. The throat of the flower is the same color or yellowish to white. At the mouth of the tube there may be dots of yellow and white. The light colored stamen The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the andr ...
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Eriastrum Pluriflorum
''Eriastrum pluriflorum'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names Tehachapi woollystar and many-flowered eriastrum. Distribution This wildflower is endemic to California where it is an uncommon resident of varied chaparral and woodland habitats in the central part of the state from the Inner South California Coast Ranges and northwestern Transverse Ranges, across the San Joaquin Valley to the Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains, and into the western Mojave Desert. Description This is a small annual plant, ''Eriastrum pluriflorum'', which may be anywhere from 2 to 25 centimeters in height, forming an erect bunch or a small patch on the ground. Its stem has the occasional narrow, thready leaf a few centimeters in length and coated in woolly hairs. The inflorescence is a mass of spindly bracts strung thickly with dense, cobwebby wool and bearing many distinctive trumpet-shaped flowers. Each flower has a very narrow throat tube one to ...
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Eriastrum Luteum
''Eriastrum luteum'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names yellow woollystar and yellow-flowered eriastrum. This wildflower is endemic to California where it is known only from Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties. This is a small annual rarely reaching the maximum 25 centimeters in height. It has occasional thin, threadlike leaves which are covered in a coat of woolly hairs. The inflorescence is a cluster of leaflike green or reddish bracts strung densely with cobwebby white wool and bearing bright yellow flowers. Each flower has five rounded lobes and long, protruding stamen The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10 Morphology and terminology A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filame ...s with large anthers. References External linksJepson Manual Treatment
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Eriastrum Filifolium
''Eriastrum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the phlox family which are known commonly as woollystars. These wildflowers are somewhat diverse in appearance but are usually erect, thin-stemmed herbs which bear purple to white blooms. Most species have inflorescences which are webbed with a woolly mesh of white fibers. Woollystars are native to western North America. Species: *'' Eriastrum abramsii'' - Abrams' woollystar *'' Eriastrum brandegeeae'' - Brandegee's woollystar *'' Eriastrum densifolium'' - giant woollystar *'' Eriastrum diffusum'' - miniature woollystar *'' Eriastrum eremicum'' - desert woollystar *'' Eriastrum filifolium'' - lavender woollystar *'' Eriastrum hooveri'' - Hoover's woollystar *''Eriastrum luteum ''Eriastrum luteum'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names yellow woollystar and yellow-flowered eriastrum. This wildflower is endemic to California where it is known only from Monterey and San Luis Ob ...'' - y ...
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Woot
Woot (originally W00t) is an American Internet retailer based in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton, Texas. Founded by electronics wholesaler Matt Rutledge, it debuted on July 12, 2004. Woot's main website generally offers only one discounted product each day, often a piece of computer hardware or an electronic gadget. Other Woot sites offer daily deals for T-shirts, wine, children's items, household goods; two other sites offer various items. On June 30, 2010, Woot announced an agreement to be acquired by Amazon. Sales model Woot's tagline is "One Day, One Deal". Originally, Woot offered one product per day until its stock of that item was sold out, or until the product was replaced at midnight Central Time with the next offering. If a product sold out during its run, the next item would not appear until midnight, except during Woot-Off promotions. However, post-acquisition from Amazon, if a product sells out fast enough (generally before Noon CT), a new product will be o ...
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Eriastrum Diffusum
''Eriastrum diffusum'' is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name miniature woollystar. It is native to the southwestern United States from California to Texas, where it grows in many types of open habitat. This is an annual herb producing a thin, usually woolly stem up to about 20 centimeters long, growing erect or spreading outward. The leaves are divided into 2 to 4 narrow, threadlike linear lobes. The inflorescence is a woolly cluster of narrow, leaflike bract In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves. They may be smaller, larger, or of ...s laced with webby fibers. The small flowers are funnel-shaped, with yellowish throats and white to pale blue corollas. External linksJepson Manual Treatment
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