familyPolygonaceae
subfamilyPolygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
genusEriogonum
subgenusEriogonum subg. Eucycla
speciesEriogonum kennedyi
Eriogonum kennedyi var. pinicola
in P. A. Munz, Suppl. Calif. Fl., 68. 1968.
Common names: Sweet Ridge wild buckwheat
Endemic
Herbs, 0.5–1.3 × 1–3 dm. Leaf-blade oblong, 0.3–0.5 × 0.1–0.4 cm, grayish or reddish-white-tomentose, margins not revolute. Scapes 5–13 cm, glabrous. Involucres 2.5–3.5 mm, sparsely tomentose. Flowers 2–4 mm. Achenes 2.5–3 mm.
Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Gravelly to rocky ridges, chaparral communities, montane conifer woodlands
Elevation: 1700-1800 m
Discussion
Variety pinicola is known from two small populations in the mountains east of Tehachapi, Kern County.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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not winged +
light-brown;brown +
glabrous +
homocarpic +
3-gonous +
2.5mm;3mm +
various +
dehiscing +
acute;obtuse or rounded +
absent +
marcescent +
longer +
anthesis +
distal +
stipelike +
papillate +
entire +
reddish-white-tomentose +
oblong;elliptic;oblong;elliptic;oblanceolate +
not awn-tipped +
connate +
absent +
4;7 +
connate +
diffuse +
not brittle +
free +
aerial +
absent +
scabrellous +
deciduous +
exposed +
matted +
absent +
woody +
woody +
fasciculate +
Sweet Ridge wild buckwheat +
Calif. +
curved +
nuclear +
abundant +
adnate +
glabrous +
6;100 +
not attenuate +
fasciculate +
scapelike +
aerial +
not fistulose +
slender +
homocarpic +
minute +
scattered +
few +
bractlike +
capitate +
racemose +
spreading +
axillary +
reduced +
trichotomous +
enclosed +
tomentose +
rigid +
persistent +
grayish +
reddish-white-tomentose +
oblong +
0.1cm;0.4cm +
fasciculate +
sheathing +
persistent +
basal +
bractlike +
awn-tipped +
not revolute +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
basal +
articulate +
absent +
accrescent +
cluster +
erect +
absent +
erect to deflexed +
winged +
white;pink or rose +
persistent +
pustulose +
accrescent +
various +
absent +
obscure +
tomentose +
in P. A. Munz, Suppl. Calif. Fl., +
1968 +
fibrous +
glabrous +
persistent +
anthesis +
ringlike +
longitudinal +
Endemic +
recurved +
exserted +
absent +
scapose +
matted +
absent +
peltate +
capitate +
foliaceous +
absent +
chartaceous +
arranged +
involucral +
absent +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
woody +
Eriogonum kennedyi var. pinicola +
Eriogonum kennedyi +
variety +
absent +
monomorphic +
connate +
dimorphic +
proximal +
1/4 +
coriaceous +
single +
single +
lobelike +
not awned +
persistent +
membranous +
glandular-punctate +
developing +
raised +
scapose +
perennial +
1dm;3dm +