Eriogonum cronquistii
Madroño 19: 289, fig. 1. 1969.
Herbs, spreading, not scapose, (0.7–) 1–1.5 (–4) × 3–8 dm, glabrous, grayish. Stems spreading, usually with persistent leaf-bases, up to 1/4 height of plant; caudex stems spreading; aerial flowering-stems spreading to erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.5–1 dm, glabrous, tomentose among leaves. Leaves sheathing up stems 1–4 cm, 1 per node; petiole 0.3–0.8 cm, tomentose; blade elliptic, 0.5–2 × 0.4–1 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, sparsely so and greenish adaxially, margins crenulate. Inflorescences subcapitate to cymose, 1–7 × 1–5 cm; branches dichotomous, glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, 1 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node or 2–4 per cluster, turbinate, (2.5–) 3–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.6–1 mm. Flowers (1.5–) 2–3 mm; perianth white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/3, monomorphic, oblanceolate; stamens exserted, 2.5–4 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light-brown, 2–2.5 mm, glabrous. 2n = 40.
Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Granitic talus slopes and outcrops, sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands
Elevation: 2500-2800 m
Distribution
Utah.
Discussion
Of conservation concern.
Eriogonum cronquistii is known only from the western slope and summit of Bull Mountain, Henry Mountains, Garfield County. The Bureau of Land Management considers it a “sensitive” species.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
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