familyPolygonaceae
subfamilyPolygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
genusEriogonum
subgenusEriogonum subg. Eriogonum
speciesEriogonum longifolium
Eriogonum longifolium var. gnaphalifolium
Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 42: 190. 1906.
Common names: Scrub wild buckwheat
Endemic
Synonyms: Eriogonum floridanum Small
Plants 5–13 dm, thinly tomentose. Leaves: basal leaf-blade (3–) 8–20 × 0.3–1 cm, tomentose abaxially, glabrous adaxially. Peduncles 1–3 cm. Involucres turbinate, 6–7 × 3–5 mm. Flowers 8–15 mm, including 2–4 (–7) mm stipelike base. Achenes 5–6 mm.
Phenology: Flowering Mar–Sep.
Habitat: Sandy flats and slopes, scrub oak and conifer woodlands
Elevation: 10-50 m
Discussion
Variety gnaphalifolium is federally listed as threatened and is known only from DeSoto, Highlands, Lake, Marion, Orange, Polk, Putnam, Sumter, and Volusia counties in central Florida.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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not winged +
brown +
tomentose +
homocarpic +
3-gonous +
5mm;6mm +
various +
dehiscing +
acute +
absent +
marcescent +
longer +
anthesis +
distal +
stipelike +
entire +
oblanceolate;oblong +
not awn-tipped +
leaflike +
connate +
absent +
connate +
striated +
not brittle +
free +
aerial +
tomentose +
scabrellous +
round +
absent +
woody +
fasciculate +
Scrub wild buckwheat +
Fla. +
straight +
nuclear +
abundant +
adnate +
glabrous +
6;100 +
attenuate +
grooved +
striated +
aerial +
fistulose +
slender;stout +
homocarpic +
bractlike +
racemose +
axillary +
trichotomous +
enclosed +
not appressed +
turbinate +
nonmembranous +
fasciculate +
sheathing +
persistent +
bractlike +
awn-tipped +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
basal +
articulate +
absent +
accrescent +
cluster +
erect +
absent +
glabrous;tomentose +
erect to deflexed +
winged +
white;yellow +
persistent +
silvery-tomentose +
pustulose +
accrescent +
absent +
obscure +
Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique +
1906 +
fibrous +
persistent +
anthesis +
ringlike +
longitudinal +
Endemic +
recurved +
exserted +
absent +
scapose +
scandent +
erect +
absent +
peltate +
capitate +
foliaceous +
absent +
chartaceous +
arranged +
involucral +
absent +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
woody +
Eriogonum longifolium var. gnaphalifolium +
Eriogonum longifolium +
variety +
absent +
monomorphic +
connate +
dimorphic +
coriaceous +
single +
lobelike +
not awned +
erect +
persistent +
membranous +
glandular-punctate +
developing +
raised +
perennial +
polycarpic +
homophyllous +
tomentose +
1.5dm;8dm +