Eriogonum luteolum var. pedunculatum

(S. Stokes) Reveal

Great Basin Naturalist 40: 148. 1980.

Common names: Mokelumne Hill wild buckwheat
Endemic
Basionym: Eriogonum pedunculatum S. Stokes Leafl. W. Bot. 2: 48. 1937
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 421. Mentioned on page 420, 422.

Plants erect, 3–6 dm, glabrous. Aerial flowering stems erect, 0.5–1 dm. Leaves basal or basal and cauline; blade oblong to oblong-ovate. Inflorescences 10–50 cm. Involucres sessile and appressed to branches, rarely on erect peduncles 1–5 mm at proximal nodes, cylindric, 3–3.5 mm. Flowers 1–1.5(–1.8) mm; perianth white. Achenes 1–1.4 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat: Sandy to gravelly serpentine flats and slopes, mixed grassland and chaparral communities, oak and pine woodlands
Elevation: 100-1500(-1950) m

Discussion

Variety pedunculatum is encountered infrequently on the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Mariposa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sierra, Tulare, and Tuolumne counties. The feature that was the basis for the varietal epithet, a pedunculate involucre, is seen only rarely.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
James L. Reveal +
(S. Stokes) Reveal +
Eriogonum pedunculatum +
Mokelumne Hill wild buckwheat +
100-1500(-1950) m +
Sandy to gravelly serpentine flats and slopes, mixed grassland and chaparral communities, oak and pine woodlands +
Flowering Jun–Oct. +
Great Basin Naturalist +
Eriogonum vimineum var. luteolum +
Eriogonum luteolum var. pedunculatum +
Eriogonum luteolum +
variety +