Eriogonum Gracillimum, Rose And White Buckwheat

Eriogonum gracillimum is found only in California, though is widespread, in various habitats, across much of the south and central area of the state. Leaves, and the green or reddish stems, have a covering of short, woolly (floccose) hairs. Stems are angled in cross-section rather than round. Basal leaves, attached by short stalks, are floccose above, more tomentose below; they have rounded edge teeth, or lobes, and are somewhat turned down at the edges. Stem leaves are sessile, and smaller, but otherwise similar.

The flower clusters are attached by slender, spreading,hairless peduncles of up to 1 inch. Involucres are bell-shaped, hairy, and glandular. Tepals, elliptic to oblong, are white to dark pink, darker along the midrib, spreading at the tip, with slightly irregular margins. Stamens are not exserted.