''Eriogonum gracilipes'' is a species of
wild buckwheat known by the common name White Mountains buckwheat.
It is found in granite and sandstone gravels on the slopes of the southern
Sierra Nevada
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and
Inyo Mountains of
California
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and the
White Mountains of California and
Nevada
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.
Description
''Eriogonum gracilipes'' is a small perennial herb that grows in flat mats up to 20 centimeters wide. Its leaves, each under two centimeters long, have a coat of dense white hairs and grow in packed clusters on the ground.
The plant blooms in stalks holding rounded clusters of bright raspberry red flowers, each only a few millimeters wide.
External links
Jepson Manual TreatmentPhoto gallery
gracilipes
Flora of California
Flora of Nevada
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
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Natural history of Inyo County, California
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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