Eriogonum kennedyi var. kennedyi

Common names: Kennedy’s wild buckwheat
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 293. Mentioned on page 291, 292.

Herbs, loosely matted, 0.4–1.2 × 1–3 dm. Leaf-blades oblanceolate to elliptic, 0.2–0.4 (–0.5) × 0.05–0.15 (–0.2) cm, grayish to brownish-white-tomentose, margins occasionally revolute. Scapes 4–12 cm, glabrous. Involucres 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely tomentose. Flowers 1.5–2.5 mm. Achenes 2–2.5 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat: Gravelly to rocky flats and slopes, sagebrush and montane conifer woodlands
Elevation: 1700-2700 m

Discussion

Variety kennedyi is known from the Mt. Pinos-Lockwood Valley area of Ventura County and the eastern San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County. It is not always clearly distinct morphologically from var. austromontanum in the latter location. However, Kennedy’s wild buckwheat flowers earlier than the San Bernardino Mountains wild buckwheat, and the two can be distinguished on that basis.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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light-brown;brown +
included +  and exserted +
3-gonous +
usually red +  and cream or yellow +
oblong +  and ellipsoid or oval +
acute;obtuse or rounded +
James L. Reveal +
Porter ex S. Watson +
deciduous +  and persistent +
stipelike +
Undefined subg. Eucycla +
papillate +
awn-tipped +  and simple +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
white +, brownish +  and grayish +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
reddish-white-tomentose +
oblong;elliptic;oblong;elliptic;oblanceolate +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
not awn-tipped +
leaflike +  and semileaflike +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
glandular +, pubescent +  and glabrous +
triangular +  and scale-like +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
grooved +, branched +  and open +
not brittle +
spreading +  and erect +
tomentose +  and floccose or glabrous occasionally lanate or glandular +
scabrellous +
ridged +, angled +  and round +
spreading +  and erect +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
Kennedy’s wild buckwheat +
1700-2700 m +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
unisexual +, , +  and bisexual +
not attenuate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
not fistulose +
unwinged +  and winged +
black +, red +, brown +  and yellowish +
exserted +  and included +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
spheroidal +, 4-gonous +, lenticular +, biconvex +, discoid +, 3-gonous +  and 2-gonous +
Gravelly to rocky flats and slopes, sagebrush and montane conifer woodlands +
reduced +
open +, virgate +, umbellate +, cymose-umbellate +  and cymose +
dense +  and diffuse +
cymelike +, paniclelike +, racemelike +  and spikelike +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
connate +  and free +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
tomentose +  and glabrous +
turbinate +  and turbinate-campanulate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
brownish-white-tomentose +
oblanceolate +  and elliptic +
0.05cm;0.15cm +
in whorls +, opposite +, alternate +  and rosulate +
persistent +
bractlike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
revolute +  and plane +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
accrescent +
curved +  and straight +
erect to deflexed +
white;pink or rose +
glabrous +, pubescent +  and glandular +
cylindric +  and urceolate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
with extrafloral nectaries +  and not articulate +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Flowering Apr–Jul. +
homostylous +  and 3-carpellate +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
, +  and solid +
slender;stout +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
persistent +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
erect +, decumbent +  and spreading +
glandular +, pubescent +  and glabrous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
penicillate +, fimbriate +  and capitate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
consisting of a series +  and tubular +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
chambered +  and solid +
slender +  and stout +
Eriogonum kennedyi var. kennedyi +
Eriogonum kennedyi +
variety +
emarginate +  and entire +
0 +  and 1/2 +
oblanceolate +  and elliptic or obovate +
coriaceous +
erect +  and spreading +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
reddish +  and grayish +
herb +  and matted +
sparsely floccose +  and tomentose +
synoecious +, monocarpic +, polycarpic +  and , +
3 +, 2 +  and 1 +