Eriogonum thymoides
Thymeleaf Buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)

Photo taken at Badger Mountain, dry shrub steppe, lithosol soil

Flowers:

flower stem with a whorl of linear bracts near the middle; perianth stipe-like at base, pubescent externally, whitish pink in color turning darker pink or rose with age; involucre lobes erect, often less than half as long as the tube

Leaves:

leaves tightly revolute, narrowly linear

Plant:

perennial; woody subshrub; suffrutescent or matforming

Habitat:

sagebrush flats to low mountain ridges

Distribution of species:

In the east Cascades from Chelan County to northern Oregon, east to southwest Idaho

Distribution of genus:

more or less 250 species: North America