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Eriogonum gracilipes

Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eriogonum gracilipes
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Eriogonum gracilipes is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name White Mountains buckwheat.

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It is found in granite and sandstone gravels on the slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains of California 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 (7.9 in) 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.


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