Eriogonum pendulum
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 23: 265. 1888.
Shrubs, erect or slightly spreading, not scapose, 2–5 × 2–8 dm, densely tomentose, tannish. Stems mostly erect, without persistent leaf-bases, up to 1/2 height or more of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering-stems erect, stout, solid, not fistulose, 2–4 dm, tomentose. Leaves 1 per node and sheathing up stems or fasciculate at tips of basal branches; petiole 0.1–0.5 (–1) cm, tomentose; blade oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, (1.5–) 2–4 (–5) × 1–2.5 (–3) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences cymose, 15–30 (–40) × 15–40 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose; bracts 3, semileaflike, narrowly oblanceolate, 3–7 × 1–3 mm. Peduncles absent or erect, slender, (1–) 3–10 cm, tomentose. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate-campanulate, 3.5–5 × 2.5–4 mm, tomentose; teeth 5–8, erect, 0.4–0.8 mm. Flowers 3–6 (–7) mm; perianth white, densely villous abaxially; tepals connate proximal 1/3, monomorphic, narrowly oblong; stamens exserted, 3–7 mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 3–5 mm, villous.
Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, sagebrush communities, oak and montane conifer woodlands
Elevation: 200-800 m
Discussion
Eriogonum pendulum is a rare to locally uncommon shrub in the O’Brien-Waldo area of Josephine County, Oregon, and more common in the Siskiyou Mountains of Del Norte County, California, as far south as Gasquet.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
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