Eriogonum elatum
Tall Buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Fish Hatchery, open woods on dry gravelly soil

Flowers:

cyme-like; bracts scale-like; 1 to 5 involucres per cluster; perianth 2.5 to 3 mm, white to reddish-pink, with short appressed pubescence; perianth not stipelike or attenuated at the base; flowering stem leafless

Fruit:

3.5 to 4 mm

Leaves:

all basal; blade 4 to 25 cm long, more or less lanceolate, generally tomentose

Plant:

2 to 15 dm tall

Habitat:

sagebrush desert to open mountain ridges

Distribution of species:

Okanogan County, Washington to California in the east Cascades, east to Idaho and Nevada

Distribution of genus:

more or less 200 species: North America