View source for Eriogonum coloradense

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eriogonum coloradense
|accepted_authority=Small
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=33: 53. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|common_names=Colorado wild buckwheat
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum multiceps var. coloradense
|authority=(Small) S. Stokes
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum coloradense
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eriogonum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Eriogonum subg. Eucycla]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eriogonum coloradense]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 241, 262
|treatment_page=page 263
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> matted, scapose, (0.1–)0.3–0.6 × 0.5–5 dm, glabrous, grayish. <b>Stems</b> spreading, often with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/5 height of plant; caudex stems matted, glabrous; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.3–1(–1.2) dm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal, 1 per node but congested; petiole (0.2–)0.5–3 cm, tomentose to floccose or glabrous; blade oblanceolate to lanceolate or narrowly spatulate, 1–4(–5) × 0.3–0.6(–0.9) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, thinly floccose or glabrous and green adaxially, margins plane or thickened. <b>Inflorescences</b> capitate, 0.7–1.5 cm wide; branches absent; bracts 3, semileaflike, usually triangular, 1.5–3(–4) mm. <b>Peduncles</b> absent. <b>Involucres</b> 3–4 per cluster, turbinate-campanulate, 2–3.5 × 1.5–2.5(–3) mm, glabrous except for cottony tomentum on teeth, rarely thinly floccose; teeth 5, erect, 0.3–0.7(–1) mm. <b>Flowers</b> 2.5–3.5(–4) mm; perianth white to rose, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/4, monomorphic, oblong to ovate; stamens exserted, 3.5–4 mm; filaments sparsely pilose proximally. <b>Achenes</b> light brown to brown, 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, high-elevation sagebrush and marginal meadow grassland communities, montane or subalpine conifer woodlands
|elevation=2800-3900 m
|distribution=Colo.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Eriogonum coloradense is a high-elevation species closely allied to E. lonchophyllum. It is restricted to the backbone of the central Colorado Rocky Mountains in Chaffee, Gunnison, Park, Pitkin, and Saguache counties. The Colorado wild buckwheat is listed as a “sensitive” species for Colorado. It is occasionally seen in cultivation.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eriogonum coloradense
|author=
|authority=Small
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Eriogonum multiceps var. coloradense
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, high-elevation sagebrush and marginal meadow grassland communities, montane or subalpine conifer woodlands
|elevation=2800-3900 m
|distribution=Colo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1906
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum coloradense
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