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Eriogonum gracilipes is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name White Mountains buckwheat. It is found in granite and sandstone gravels on the slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. This small perennial herb grows in flat mats up to 20 centimeters wide. Its leaves, each under two centimeters long, have a coat of dense white hairs and grow in packed clusters on the ground. The plant blooms in stalks holding rounded clusters of bright raspberry red flowers, each only a few millimeters wide.
Perennial herb
0.8 - 4 in Tall
Red
Full Sun
Low, Very Low
Dry granite
Bristlecone Pine Forest
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Sleepy Orange
Abaeis nicippe
Angelic Sweat Bee
Agapostemon angelicus
Wide-legged Sweat Bee
Agapostemon femoratus
Orange-bellied Sweat Bee
Agapostemon melliventris
Buckwheat
Fagopyrum esculentum
Parsley
Petroselinum crispum
Potatoes
Solanum tuberosum