Eriogonum heracleoides var. heracleoides(syn: Eriogonum heracleoides var. minus)
Parsnipflower Buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)

Photo taken by Badger Mountain, dry shrub-steppe to openly wooded hillside

Flowers:

several flowered in terminal clusters; flower stem bractless; perianth glabrous externally, stipe-like at base, cream colored; involucre lobes at least half as long as tube, generally reflexed or spreading

Leaves:

in whorls; usually less than 1 cm wide, at least 3 times as long as broad; linear to linear- lanceolate, not cordate or truncate at the base; greyish-lanate on both surfaces (sometimes only sparsely tomentose and much less greyish above)

Plant:

perennial; woody subshrub up to 60 dm tall. A decoction of roots and stems were taken for colds by the Okanagan-Colville. Infusion of plant used to wash infected cuts by both the Okanagan-Colville and Thompson.

Habitat:

loamy to rocky places from sagebrush desert to Ponderosa pine forest and mountain ridges up to 6,000 feet

Distribution of species:

Chelan, Kittitas and Douglas Counties, east to Spokane Washington, sporadic elsewhere

Distribution of genus:

more or less 250 species: North America