''Eriogonum ochrocephalum'' is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name whitewoolly buckwheat. It is 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 United States, where it grows in local habitat such as

sagebrush Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceous species of plants in the genus ''Artemisia''. The best known sagebrush is the shrub ''Artemisia tridentata''. Sagebrushes are native to the North American west. Following is an alph ...

. It is a perennial herb forming a thick clump or mat covered in clusters of woolly lance-shaped to oval leaves. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

s arise on erect scapes and bear many tiny yellow flowers in a rounded cluster.

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