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Eriogonum douglasii is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Douglas' buckwheat. It is native to the western United States, including the Pacific Northwest and part of the Great Basin. This plant forms a mat of hairy herbage around a caudex. There are rosettes of lance-shaped to oval leaves with blades 0. 4 to nearly 2 centimeters long. The leaves are feltlike, covered in woolly hairs. The inflorescence arises on a solid, erect flowering stem up to 15 centimeters tall with a whorl of bracts midway up. It is a headlike cluster of cream, yellowish, or rose-pink flowers with protruding stamens.
Perennial herb
4 - 6 in Tall
Cream
Partial Shade
Low, Very Low
Fast
Sandy or gravel places
Northern Juniper Woodland, Sagebrush Scrub, Yellow Pine Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
0 confirmed and 24 likely
Mormon Metalmark
Apodemia mormo
The Brown Elfin
Callophrys augustinus
Sheridan's Hairstreak
Callophrys sheridanii