Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Eriogonum gracilipes is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name White Mountains buckwheat. It is found in granite and sandstone gravels on the slopes of the southern Sierra Nevada and Inyo Mountains of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. This small perennial herb grows in flat mats up to 20 centimeters wide. Its leaves, each under two centimeters long, have a coat of dense white hairs and grow in packed clusters on the ground. The plant blooms in stalks holding rounded clusters of bright raspberry red flowers, each only a few millimeters wide.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

0.8 - 4 in Tall

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Color

Red

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Site type

Dry granite

Plant communities

Bristlecone Pine Forest

Bees
Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

0 confirmed and 23 likely

Confirmed Likely

Mormon Metalmark

Apodemia mormo

Behr's Metalmark

Apodemia virgulti

Aroga paulella

The Brown Elfin

Callophrys augustinus