B75 



WRIGHT BUCKWHEATBRUSH 



Erio'gonum wrigh'tii 



Flowers white or pink, small .(less 

 than V t in. long), slender-stalked, several 

 to many in each tubular-bell-shaped 

 cup (involucre) 



Outer flower parts (calyx, or perianth) 

 6-lobed; lobes petal-like, reverse-egg- 

 shaped,, rounded at tips, inner 3 longer 

 than outer 3; petals lacking; stamens 9 



Involucre stalkless, erect, 5-toothed, 

 prominently but bluntly angled, woolly^ 

 hairy between the angles, scattered 

 along or crowded near ends of the 

 repeatedly 2- or 3-forked, white-woolly- 

 hairy flowering branches 



"Seed" (achene)-^small, 3-angled, en- 

 closed in the persistent calyx 



Bracts 3 at each fork of flowering 

 branches, more or less grown together 

 at base 



Stems : up to about 2 ft. high, woody 

 and much-branched at base, with 

 several, very leafy, short, erect, white- 

 woolly_-hairy branches from which the 

 flowering stalks arise 



Leaves alternate, often with smaller 

 leaves clustered m the axils, up to 

 about 1 in. long, reverse-egg-shaped or 

 reverse lance-shaped, sharp-pointed at 

 tips, densely white-woolly-hairy, more 

 or less stalked 



Taproot -perennial, woody, thickened 



