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Eriogonum tripodum is a rare species of wild buckwheat known by the common name tripod buckwheat. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the Sierra Nevada foothills and northern sections of the Coast Ranges. It is generally part of the serpentine soils flora. This is a spreading subshrub growing up to about half a meter tall and wide with mostly hairless flowering stems arising from a caudex. The base of the plant is covered in clusters of widely lance-shaped leaves which are woolly in texture, especially on the undersides. The flower cluster atop the stem is a head or umbel of bright yellow flowers, each of which is hairy and connected to the cluster by a very narrow base like a stalk.
Shrub
10 - 19 in Tall
Yellow
Groundcover
Full Sun
Low, Very Low
7*, 14, 15*, 16*, 17*
Rocky outcrops
Chaparral, Foothill Woodland
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 26 likely
Sonoran Metalmark
Apodemia mejicanus
Mormon Metalmark
Apodemia mormo
Behr's Metalmark
Apodemia virgulti
The Brown Elfin
Callophrys augustinus