coastal wild buckwheat

Eriogonum cinereum

Member of wild buckwheats (genus Eriogonum)
knotweed family (family Polygonaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
flowering plants (subphylum Angiospermae)

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• flowers are clustered, long-soft-hairy
• shrub
• leaf blades 1.5–3 cm, ovate, margins flat [sort of]
• inflorescence (all branches collectively) generally head-like
• very rare

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Chris’s observations: none

Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora