BUCKWHEAT FAMILY. Polygonaceae. 



pinkish anthers. The leaves are dull-green on the upper 

 side and pale with close down on the under and grow in a 

 cluster at the base. 



Butter Ball These are attractive plants, with pretty 



Snow Balls ' ^ little balls of flowers, and are very 

 Eriogonum conspicuous on dry, rocky mesas. They 



orthoctiulon^ have a number of slender, pale, downy 



Yellow, white ste ms, about ten inches tall, springing 

 Spring, summer 



Northwest ^ rom a close clump of small, dull-green 



leaves, pale with down on both sides and 

 the smaller ones almost white, and bearing at the tip a 

 dense flower-cluster, about an inch and a half across, which 

 is very fuzzy and pretty. The little flowers have cream- 

 color, downy involucres, the outer sepals are broader than 

 the inner, and the pedicels, stamens, and pistil are all the 

 same color as the sepals, either very bright sulphur-yellow 

 or cream-white, but not mixed on the same plant, and 

 sometimes tinged with red. These flowers are very popu- 

 lar with children in Idaho and they make necklaces of the 

 fuzzy balls, something like "daisy chains." 



This is a big handsome plant, with a 



Eriogonum 



compositum thiCK, smooth stem, one or two feet tall 



White, yellow and woody at base, and with thickish 

 Summer leaves, slightly downy, dark green in color 



on the upper side and white with close 

 down on the under. The flowers form feathery, cream- 

 white or yellow clusters, often more than six inches across, 

 with red buds, and are beautiful and conspicuous on bare 

 mountainsides, smelling of honey. 



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