familyPolygonaceae
subfamilyPolygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
genusEriogonum
subgenusEriogonum subg. Eucycla
speciesEriogonum ovalifolium
Eriogonum ovalifolium var. monarchense
Madroño 49: 16, fig. 1. 2002.
Common names: Monarch wild buckwheat
Plants 1.5–3 dm wide. Leaf-blades elliptic to round, 0.3–1.2 cm, tomentose to densely floccose, margins not brownish. Scapes decumbent to ascending, 2–6 (–9) cm, tomentose to floccose. Inflorescences capitate, 1.5–4 cm wide; branches absent. Involucres 4–6 per cluster, 5–8 mm. Flowers 4–6 mm; perianth white to cream.
Phenology: Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat: Limestone outcrops, pinyon woodlands
Elevation: 1800 m
Discussion
Variety monarchense is known from a single population of fewer than 30 individuals in the Kings River Canyon area of Fresno County.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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not winged +
light-brown;brown +
glabrous +
homocarpic +
3-gonous +
2mm;3mm +
various +
dehiscing +
acute;obtuse or rounded +
absent +
marcescent +
longer +
anthesis +
distal +
stipelike +
papillate +
elliptic;round +
entire +
oblanceolate;elliptic or spatulate +
not awn-tipped +
connate +
absent +
connate +
diffuse +
not brittle +
free +
aerial +
absent +
scabrellous +
deciduous +
exposed +
matted +
spreading +
absent +
woody +
woody +
fasciculate +
Monarch wild buckwheat +
Calif. +
curved +
nuclear +
abundant +
adnate +
pilose +
6;100 +
not attenuate +
fasciculate +
scapelike +
aerial +
not fistulose +
slender +
homocarpic +
minute +
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few +
bractlike +
capitate +
racemose +
spreading +
axillary +
reduced +
trichotomous +
enclosed +
nonmembranous +
persistent +
sheathing +
persistent +
basal +
bractlike +
awn-tipped +
not brownish +
plane +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
basal +
articulate +
absent +
accrescent +
cluster +
erect +
absent +
erect to deflexed +
winged +
white;cream +
persistent +
glabrous +
pustulose +
accrescent +
various +
not twisted +
absent +
obscure +
tomentose +
curled +
Madroño +
2002 +
fibrous +
persistent +
anthesis +
ringlike +
longitudinal +
recurved +
included +
absent +
scapose +
matted +
absent +
peltate +
capitate +
foliaceous +
absent +
chartaceous +
arranged +
involucral +
absent +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
woody +
Eriogonum ovalifolium var. monarchense +
Eriogonum ovalifolium +
variety +
absent +
monomorphic +
dimorphic +
coriaceous +
single +
single +
lobelike +
not awned +
erect +
persistent +
membranous +
glandular-punctate +
developing +
raised +
scapose +
perennial +
pulvinate +
1.5dm;3dm +
connate +
dimorphic +