''Eriogonum parishii'' is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name mountainmist.

Distribution

It is found mainly in

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, where it grows in many of the mountain ranges from the Sierra Nevada, White Mountains and

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, west through the

Transverse Ranges The Transverse Ranges are a group of mountain ranges of southern California, in the Pacific Coast Ranges physiographic region in North America. The Transverse Ranges begin at the southern end of the California Coast Ranges and lie within Santa ...

and Peninsular Ranges. It is also known from the southern Peninsular Ranges in

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, and in

Yavapai County, Arizona Yavapai County is near the center of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population was 236,209, making it the fourth-most populous county in Arizona. The county seat is Prescott. Yavapai County comprises the Prescott, AZ M ...

. It grows in various types of mountain slope habitat, such as

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and chaparral, generally on granite sands.

Description

''Eriogonum parishi'' is an annual herb producing clumps of spreading hairless green stems which are intricately branched. The hairy oval leaves are located around the base of the stems and are 2 to 6 centimeters long. The

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphology (biology), Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of sperma ...

is a spreading array of clusters of tiny pink to reddish flowers with darker red

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s. Each individual flower is generally under a millimeter wide and fuzzy in texture.

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment of ''Eriogonum parishii''''Eriogonum parishii'' — UC Photo gallery
parishii Flora of Arizona Flora of Baja California Flora of California Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains Natural history of the Transverse Ranges Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Polygonaceae-stub