PLANTS Profile for Eriogonum caespitosum (matted buckwheat)

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PLANTS Profile

Eriogonum caespitosum Nutt.
matted buckwheat

Symbol:

ERCA8

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Polygonaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Subshrub
Forb/herb

L48

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Eriogonum caespitosum Nutt.

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Synonyms:
Eriogonum caespitosum Nutt.

ERSPS6

Eriogonum sphaerocephalum Douglas ex Benth. var. sericoleucum (Greene) S. Stokes

Distribution:
Eriogonum caespitosum Nutt.


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Related Taxa:
Eriogonum caespitosum Nutt.

View 33 genera in Polygonaceae, 230 species in Eriogonum

Classification:
Eriogonum caespitosum Nutt.

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Caryophyllidae
Order	Polygonales
Family	Polygonaceae – Buckwheat family
Genus	Eriogonum Michx. – buckwheat
Species	Eriogonum caespitosum Nutt. – matted buckwheat

More Accounts and Images:
Eriogonum caespitosum Nutt.

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View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View species account from ARS Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 21086.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account and photographs from Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Information Network (NPIN).

Time Generated: 06/18/2013 07:09 PM CDT