PLANTS Profile for Eriogonum microthecum (slender buckwheat)

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PLANTS Profile

Eriogonum microthecum Nutt.
slender buckwheat

Symbol:

ERMI4

Group:

Dicot

Family:

Polygonaceae

Duration:

Perennial

Growth Habit:

Subshrub
Shrub

Native Status:

L48

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©Al Schneider. Southwest Colorado Wildflowers. United States, CO, NM, AZ, UT, Four Corners vicinity, within 150 miles of the corners. Usage Requirements. Any use of copyrighted images requires notification of the copyright holder.

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Eriogonum microthecum Nutt.

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Distribution:
Eriogonum microthecum Nutt.


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Related Taxa:
Eriogonum microthecum Nutt.

View 33 genera in Polygonaceae, 229 species in Eriogonum or click below on a thumbnail map or name for species profiles.

Eriogonum microthecum var. alpinum
alpine slender buckwheat

Eriogonum microthecum var. ambiguum
slender buckwheat

Eriogonum microthecum var. corymbosoides
San Bernardino buckwheat

Eriogonum microthecum var. johnstonii
Johnston's buckwheat

Eriogonum microthecum var. lapidicola
slender buckwheat

Eriogonum microthecum var. laxiflorum
slender buckwheat

Eriogonum microthecum var. microthecum
slender buckwheat

Eriogonum microthecum var. panamintense
Panamint buckwheat

Eriogonum microthecum var. simpsonii
Simpson's buckwheat

Native

Introduced

Classification:
Eriogonum microthecum Nutt.

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Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Caryophyllidae
Order	Polygonales
Family	Polygonaceae – Buckwheat family
Genus	Eriogonum Michx. – buckwheat
Species	Eriogonum microthecum Nutt. – slender buckwheat

More Accounts and Images:
Eriogonum microthecum Nutt.

View photographs from CalPhotos.

View species account and distribution map from Flora of North America (FNA).

View taxonomic account from Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) for ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number 21192.

View species account and distribution map from Jepson Interchange (University of California - Berkeley).

View species account from Native American Ethnobotany (University of Michigan - Dearborn).

Time Generated: 09/23/2008 01:57 PM MDT