Eriogonum brevicaule var. caelitum

Reveal

Phytologia 86: 123. 2004.

Common names: Wasatch Plateau wild buckwheat
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 267. Mentioned on page 264, 265.

Plants cespitose, 0.6–1.8(–2) × 1–2.5 dm. Aerial flowering stems erect or nearly so, scapelike, 0.5–1.5 dm, densely floccose to tomentose. Leaves: blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, 0.2–4.5(–5) × (0.2–)0.3–0.6(–0.7) cm, tomentose abaxially, thinly floccose and bright green adaxially, margins plane or slightly thickened. Inflorescences capitate, 1–2 cm; branches absent. Involucres 3–7 per cluster, turbinate to turbinate-campanulate, 2–3.5(–4) × 2–3(–3.5) mm, floccose to tomentose. Flowers 2.5–3.5(–4) mm; perianth yellow, glabrous.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Gravelly to rocky, mostly limestone soil, high-elevation sagebrush communities, subalpine conifer woodlands
Elevation: 2700-3700 m

Discussion

Variety caelitum is restricted to the limestone Flagstaff Formation on the high mesa tops of the Wasatch Mountains in Sanpete and northern Sevier counties.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
James L. Reveal +
Reveal +
Undefined subg. Eucycla +
Wasatch Plateau wild buckwheat +
2700-3700 m +
Gravelly to rocky, mostly limestone soil, high-elevation sagebrush communities, subalpine conifer woodlands +
Flowering Jul–Sep. +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
Eriogonum campanulatum subsp. brevicaule +
Eriogonum brevicaule var. caelitum +
Eriogonum brevicaule +
variety +