golden-carpet wild buckwheat

Eriogonum luteolum var. luteolum

Member of wicker buckwheat (Eriogonum luteolum)
wild buckwheats (genus Eriogonum)
knotweed family (family Polygonaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
red purple in flowering plants

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• flowers not at branchlet tips, generally appressed with no peduncles
• involucres 2–5 mm
• outer perianth lobes not fan-shaped or hastate
• basal and cauline leaf blades ± round
• scattered

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Chris’s observations: none

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

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora