''Eriogonum ampullaceum'' is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Mono buckwheat.

Description

''Eriogonum ampullaceum'' is an annual herb. The leaves are located about the base of the flowering stem. They are generally rounded, woolly in texture, and just a few centimeters wide. It produces a yellow-green or reddish spindly, branching

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up to 30 centimeters tall. The white flowers are less than 2 millimeters wide and appear in clusters.

Distribution and habitat

The plant is native to the western

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region, on the lower eastern

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slopes, and eastwards along the border of

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and

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. It grows in Great Basin

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habitats, in sandy soils of high desert and plateau areas.

External links

Calflora Database: ''Eriogonum ampullaceum'' (Mono buckwheat)Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of ''Eriogonum ampullaceum''U.C. CalPhotos gallery of ''Eriogonum ampullaceum'' (Mono buckwheat)
ampullaceum Flora of California Flora of Nevada Flora of the Great Basin Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Natural history of Mono County, California Taxa named by John Thomas Howell Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Polygonaceae-stub