BUCKWHEAT FAMILY. Polygonaceae. 



_ , . In favorable situations this is an attrac- 



Buckwheat Bush, . 



Flat-top tlve snru b, from two to four feet nigh, 



Eridgonum with shreddy, reddish bark and long, 



fasciculatum straight branches, standing stiffly up and 



^ hite crowded with small, thickish, stiffish 



Spring, summer 



Southwest leaves, dark olive-green on the upper side 



and pale with down on the under, with 

 rolled-back margins. The flowers are about three-eighths 

 of an inch across, dull-white or pinkish, with pink buds, 

 forming large, feathery, flat-topped clusters, on long, stiff, 

 bare, reddish flower-stalks, standing up stiffly all over the 

 bush. This is a very valuable bee-plant and grows on 

 mesas and mountain slopes. 



This plant is quite pretty and conspic- 

 Sulphur Flower 



Eridgonum BZkeri uous as the nowers are bright in color and 

 Yellow, Summer a peculiar shade of sulphur yellow. The 

 Ariz., Utah, New stem is downy and often reddish, about a 

 Mex., Col., Wyo. foQt ^ with twQ Qr three branches at 



the top, each bearing a cluster of numerous small sweet- 

 scented flowers with pretty stamens. The gray-green 

 leaves grow mostly in a rosette on the ground and are 

 covered with close white down on the under side. Their 

 soft tints tone in well with the bright color of the flowers 

 and the pale sandy soil in which they grow. E. flavum is 

 similar and widely distributed. E. incdmim is the same 

 color but much smaller, often tinged with red, the gray 

 leaves forming a dense velvety mat, and it grows at high 

 altitudes, in sandy spots on rocks, and is found around the 

 Yosemite Valley. The alpine form is very small. There 

 are several other kinds of Sulphur Flower . 



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