Eriogonum angulosum
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Eriogonum angulosum is a species of wild buckwheat
known by the common name anglestem buckwheat. It is endemic to California
where it is common to abundant in many types of habitat, from chaparral
to oak woodland to sagebrush
to desert sands. This is an annual herb producing a spreading to erect stem up to 90 centimeters tall. The leaves are located about the base of the plant and on the lower stem. They are lance-shaped and usually quite woolly in texture. Most of the stem is made up of the inflorescence
, an angled, grooved cyme with bell-shaped clusters of flowers at the tips of the branches. The individual flowers are only about a millimeter long and are white to pink-tinged in color with protruding stamen
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Eriogonum
Eriogonum is the scientific name for a genus of flowering plants, in the family Polygonaceae. The genus is found in North America and is known as wild buckwheat. This is a highly species-rich genus, and indications are that active speciation is continuing...
known by the common name anglestem buckwheat. It is endemic to California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
where it is common to abundant in many types of habitat, from chaparral
Chaparral
Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico...
to oak woodland to sagebrush
Sagebrush
Sagebrush is a common name of a number of shrubby plant species in the genus Artemisia native to western North America;Or, the sagebrush steppe ecoregion, having one or more kinds of sagebrush, bunchgrasses and others;...
to desert sands. This is an annual herb producing a spreading to erect stem up to 90 centimeters tall. The leaves are located about the base of the plant and on the lower stem. They are lance-shaped and usually quite woolly in texture. Most of the stem is made up of the inflorescence
Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Strictly, it is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed and which is accordingly modified...
, an angled, grooved cyme with bell-shaped clusters of flowers at the tips of the branches. The individual flowers are only about a millimeter long and are white to pink-tinged in color with protruding stamen
Stamen
The stamen is the pollen producing reproductive organ of a flower...
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