Eriogonum baileyi

S. Watson

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 10: 348. 1875.

IllustratedEndemic
Synonyms: Eriogonum vimineum subsp. baileyi (S. Watson) S. Stokes
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 425. Mentioned on page 416.

Herbs, erect to spreading, 1–4 (–5) dm, glabrous or tomentose, grayish. Stems: aerial flowering-stems erect, 0.5–1 dm, glabrous or tomentose. Leaves basal; petiole 0.5–3 cm, tomentose; blade suborbiculate, 0.5–2 × 0.5–2 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, mostly tomentose and grayish to greenish adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, infrequently distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open to diffuse, 5–35 (–45) × 5–35 (–4) cm; branches glabrous or tomentose; bracts 0.5–3 × 1–3 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres somewhat appressed to branches, turbinate, 1–1.5 × 0.5–1 mm, glabrous or tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.2–0.3 mm. Flowers 1.5–2 mm; perianth white to rose, minutely glandular, rarely glabrous; tepals monomorphic, oblong to oblong-obovate, somewhat constricted near middle and flaring adaxially; stamens included, 1–1.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3-gonous, 1–1.5 mm.

Distribution

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Calif., Idaho, Nev., Oreg., Utah, Wash.

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Eriogonum baileyi is closely related to and sometimes difficult to distinguish from E. elegans of the Inner Coast Ranges of California, and E. brachyanthum along the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada, especially in Inyo and Mono counties. However, these species do not seem to intergrade. Eriogonum baileyi often grows with other annual wild buckwheats (especially E. ampullaceum and E. brachyanthum), so care must be taken not to make mixed collections.

The Kawaiisu people of southern California pounded the seeds into a meal, which they ate dry, and also mixed with water to serve as a beverage (M. L. Zigmond 1981).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Flowering stems and inflorescence branches glabrous; e and s California, sc Idaho, Nevada, e Oregon, sw Utah, e Washington Eriogonum baileyi var. baileyi
1 Flowering stems and inflorescence branches tomentose; ne California, w and nc Nevada, c Idaho Eriogonum baileyi var. praebens

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included +  and exserted +
3-gonous +
usually red +  and cream or yellow +
oblong +  and ellipsoid or oval +
James L. Reveal +
S. Watson +
deciduous +  and persistent +
stipelike +  and acute +
Eriogonum sect. Oregonium +
awn-tipped +  and simple +
grayish +  and greenish +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
tomentose +  and white-tomentose +
suborbiculate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
not awn-tipped +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
glandular +, pubescent +  and glabrous +
scale-like +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
grooved +, disarticulating +  and dichotomous +
not brittle +
tomentose +  and glabrous +
scabrellous +
ridged +, angled +  and round +
spreading +  and erect +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
Calif. +, Idaho +, Nev. +, Oreg. +, Utah +  and Wash. +
unisexual +, , +  and bisexual +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
not disarticulating +  and solid +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
not fistulose +
slender;stout +
unwinged +  and winged +
black +, red +, brown +  and yellowish +
exserted +  and included +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
spheroidal +, 4-gonous +, lenticular +, biconvex +, discoid +, 3-gonous +  and 2-gonous +
open +, uniparous +  and cymose +
capitate +  and subcapitate +
35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br /> (45 cm450 mm <br />0.45 m <br />) +
35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
cymelike +, paniclelike +, racemelike +  and spikelike +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
connate +  and free +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
tomentose +  and glabrous +
nonmembranous +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
in whorls +, opposite +, alternate +  and rosulate +
marcescent +
persistent +
bractlike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
lobed +, undulate +, crisped +, crenulate +  and entire +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
accrescent +
erect to deflexed +
cylindric +  and urceolate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
with extrafloral nectaries +  and not articulate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
homostylous +  and 3-carpellate +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
, +  and solid +
slender;stout +
persistent +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
erect +, ascending +  and prostrate +
short-pilose +, puberulent +, sericeous +, glabrous +, floccose +, tomentose +  and lanate +
penicillate +, fimbriate +  and capitate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
consisting of a series +  and tubular +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
Eriogonum vimineum subsp. baileyi +
chambered +  and solid +
slender +  and stout +
Eriogonum baileyi +
Eriogonum subg. Oregonium +
species +
emarginate +  and entire +
1/4 +  and 1/2 +
flaring +, oblong +  and oblong-obovate +
constricted +
coriaceous +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
involucral +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
short-pilose +, puberulent +, sericeous +, floccose +  and tomentose or lanate +
annual +, biennial +  and perennial +
tomentose +  and glabrous +
synoecious +, monocarpic +, polycarpic +  and , +
3 +, 2 +  and 1 +