familyPolygonaceae
subfamilyPolygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
genusEriogonum
subgenusEriogonum subg. Oligogonum
speciesEriogonum jamesii
Eriogonum jamesii var. simplex
Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 42: 190. 1906.
Herbs, compact, tight mats, 3–6 dm wide. Aerial flowering-stems tomentose to floccose. Leaf-blades 1–3 (–3.5) × (0.3–) 0.5–1 (–1.2) cm, densely whitish to grayish-tomentose abaxially, less so to thinly tomentose and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences umbellate; bracts usually semileaflike, those of proximal node 0.5–2 × 0.3–1 cm. Involucres 4–6 × 2–5 mm. Flowers 4–7 (–8) mm.
Phenology: Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat: Clayey or chalk flats, slopes, and outcrops, mixed grassland communities
Elevation: 800-1000 m
Discussion
Variety simplex is known only from a few scattered populations in Logan County and one site just inside Scott County.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.
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not winged +
light-brown;brown +
glabrous +
homocarpic +
3-gonous +
4mm;5mm +
various +
dehiscing +
absent +
marcescent +
longer +
anthesis +
whorled +
distal +
stipelike +
pubescent +
entire +
elliptic +
linear;orbiculate +
not awn-tipped +
semileaflike +
connate +
absent +
3;9 +
scale-like +
connate +
not brittle +
free +
aerial +
absent +
scabrellous +
round +
spreading +
absent +
absent +
woody +
woody +
fasciculate +
Kansas antelope sage +
Kans. +
nuclear +
abundant +
adnate +
pilose +
6;100 +
attenuate +
aerial +
not fistulose +
slender +
homocarpic +
bractlike +
umbellate +
racemose +
not appressed +
spreading +
axillary +
reduced +
trichotomous +
enclosed +
turbinate +
nonmembranous +
persistent +
0.5cm;1cm +
sheathing +
persistent +
basal +
bractlike +
awn-tipped +
plane +
semileaflike +
2;3 +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
basal +
articulate +
absent +
accrescent +
cluster +
reflexed +
absent +
erect to deflexed +
winged +
white;cream +
persistent +
pubescent +
pustulose +
accrescent +
various +
absent +
obscure +
Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique +
1906 +
fibrous +
persistent +
anthesis +
ringlike +
longitudinal +
Endemic +
recurved +
exserted +
absent +
scapose +
scandent +
absent +
peltate +
capitate +
foliaceous +
absent +
chartaceous +
arranged +
involucral +
absent +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
woody +
Eriogonum jamesii var. simplex +
Eriogonum jamesii +
variety +
absent +
monomorphic +
connate +
dimorphic +
coriaceous +
single +
longer +
lobelike +
not awned +
erect +
persistent +
membranous +
glandular-punctate +
developing +
raised +
perennial +
matted +
homophyllous +
dimorphic +