PLANTS Profile for Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Great Basin woollystar)

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PLANTS Profile

Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Eastw.) H. Mason
Great Basin woollystar

Symbol:

ERSP3

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Polemoniaceae

Duration:

Annual

Growth Habit:

Forb/herb

Native Status:

L48

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Photo of Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Eastw.) H. Mason

©Al Schneider. Southwest Colorado Wildflowers. United States, CO, NM, AZ, UT, Four Corners vicinity, within 150 miles of the corners. Usage Requirements. Any use of copyrighted images requires notification of the copyright holder.

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Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Eastw.) H. Mason

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Native Status:
Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Eastw.) H. Mason


View Distribution	Native Introduced

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USA (CA, ID, NV, OR, UT)

Related Taxa:
Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Eastw.) H. Mason

View 21 genera in Polemoniaceae, 15 species in Eriastrum or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.

Distribution of Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Eastw.) H. Mason ssp. sparsiflorum. .

Eriastrum sparsiflorum ssp. sparsiflorum
Great Basin woollystar

Native

Introduced

Classification:
Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Eastw.) H. Mason

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Solanales
Family	Polemoniaceae – Phlox family
Genus	Eriastrum Woot. & Standl. – woollystar
Species	Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Eastw.) H. Mason – Great Basin woollystar

More Accounts and Images:
Eriastrum sparsiflorum (Eastw.) H. Mason

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 31071.

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).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

Time Generated: 05/18/2013 08:21 AM CDT