''Eriogonum nummulare'' is a species of
wild buckwheat known by the common names Kearney's buckwheat and money 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 from
California
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to
Utah
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, where it grows on sandy slopes and plateaus.
This is a
shrub
A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...
reaching heights of anywhere from 30 centimeters to one meter and sprawling up to one and a half meters in width. It forms a pale green patch of woolly leaves at its base and produces a branching
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 ...
which may have leaves on its thin stems. At each node along the inflorescence is a cluster of tiny flowers, which are usually white.
External links
Jepson Manual TreatmentPhoto gallery
nummulare
Flora of Arizona
Flora of Nevada
Flora of Utah
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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