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 Basal leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Eriogonum abertianum has spherical whitish inflorescences on hairy stalks. The leaves are hairy and have rounded teeth along the margins. The plant is much branched from the base and generally low and spreading.
Identification notes: Plants leafy stemmed. Lower leaves mostly broadly ovate hairy and flat, lower stem leaves similar but smaller, stem leaves not subtended by bracts. The whorl of bracts subtending a flower are deeply cleft and on stems.
Height:
1 to 3 feet
Habitat Description: Sandy, gravelly, or clayey flats, washes, and slopes, mixed grasslands.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 2500 - 7000 feet
Color:
White, pink, yellow
Shape:
Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Mar - Sep
Description:
Spherical flower clusters form on long hairy stalks. Individual flowers are small, 1/8 inch in length, and have 6 tepals in 2 series; the inner 3 lance-shaped, the outer ovate or nearly round. White and pink flowers have yellow stamens.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Round or oval
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Basal leaves are ovate, while stem leaves are narrower. Leaves are hairy. Stems are often red around the base, otherwise green or grayish, and have a covering of long, soft hairs. Stems are spreading or erect and much branched.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Type: Achene
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