Eriogonum microtheca var. schoolcraftii

Reveal

Phytologia 86: 138. 2004.

Common names: Schoolcraft’s wild buckwheat
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 247. Mentioned on page 243, 248.

Shrubs, 3–8 × (4–)5–10(–12) dm, floccose. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems 0.5–1.5 dm, floccose. Leaves: blade 1.5–3.5 × 0.5–1.2 cm, densely reddish-brown-tomentose abaxially, floccose adaxially, margins not revolute. Inflorescences 1–8 cm; branches floccose. Involucres 2.5–4 mm, floccose. Flowers 2.5–3 mm; perianth yellow. Achenes 2.5–3 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Sandy to rocky soil, sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands
Elevation: 1400-2200 m

Discussion

Variety schoolcraftii is known only from low desert hills west of Doyle, Lassen County, California, and on Seven Lake Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. It has the potential of being an attractive garden shrub.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
James L. Reveal +
Reveal +
Undefined subg. Eucycla +
Schoolcraft’s wild buckwheat +
Calif. +  and Nev. +
1400-2200 m +
Sandy to rocky soil, sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands +
Flowering Jul–Sep. +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Eriogonum microtheca var. schoolcraftii +
Eriogonum microtheca +
variety +