familyPolygonaceae
subfamilyPolygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
genusEriogonum
subgenusEriogonum subg. Ganysma
speciesEriogonum tenellum
Eriogonum tenellum var. ramosissimum
in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 14: 20. 1856.
Common names: Granite Mountain wild buckwheat
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 400.
Plants 3–4 dm. Caudex stems spreading. Leaves sheathing up stems; blade elliptic to deltoid, 0.3–1.2 × 0.2–0.7 cm. 2n = 40.
Phenology: Flowering Apr–Dec.
Habitat: Granitic flat outcrops, ledges, and crevices, mixed grassland and mesquite communities, juniper and oak woodlands
Elevation: 200-600 m
Discussion
Variety ramosissimum is restricted to the “Hill Country” in Burnet, Gillespie, Llano, and Mason counties of central Texas, where it can be locally common.
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 +
2mm;3mm +
various +
dehiscing +
absent +
not fasciculate +
sheathing +
marcescent +
longer +
anthesis +
distal +
stipelike +
entire +
grayish +
white-tomentose +
elliptic;deltoid +
not awn-tipped +
semileaflike +
connate +
absent +
scale-like +
connate +
not brittle +
free +
aerial +
glabrous +
scabrellous +
spreading +
absent +
spreading +
absent +
woody +
fasciculate +
Granite Mountain wild buckwheat +
Tex. +
curved +
nuclear +
abundant +
adnate +
pilose +
6;100 +
not attenuate +
aerial +
not fistulose +
slender;stout +
homocarpic +
Granitic flat outcrops, ledges, and crevices, mixed grassland and mesquite communities, juniper and oak woodlands +
bractlike +
diffuse +
axillary +
trichotomous +
enclosed +
not appressed +
nonmembranous +
persistent +
sheathing +
marcescent +
persistent +
basal +
bractlike +
awn-tipped +
plane +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
basal +
articulate +
absent +
accrescent +
cluster +
straight +
spreading;erect +
absent +
glabrous +
erect to deflexed +
filiform;capillary +
slender +
winged +
orangebrown;red +
persistent +
glabrous +
pustulose +
accrescent +
various +
absent +
obscure +
tomentose +
in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. +
1856 +
fibrous +
persistent +
anthesis +
ringlike +
longitudinal +
Endemic +
recurved +
included +
absent +
scapose +
viscid +
scandent +
absent +
peltate +
capitate +
foliaceous +
absent +
chartaceous +
arranged +
involucral +
absent +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
woody +
Eriogonum tenellum var. ramosissimum +
Eriogonum tenellum +
variety +
absent +
monomorphic +
connate +
dimorphic +
coriaceous +
single +
lobelike +
not awned +
persistent +
membranous +
glandular-punctate +
developing +
raised +
polycarpic +
homophyllous +
viscid +
grayish +
perennial +
erect;spreading +
dimorphic +