Eriogonum
caespitosum (186k file) in Central Idaho. An absolutely incredible
little plant with gorgeous flowres. G.R.A.S!
Pictures of Eriogonums in the Wild All pictures are Copyright by Brecknock Alpines and may not be used without permission.
Click on each picture for a full size picture. I would appreciate help in identification of any of the unidentified pictures below. I wish we had taken more pictures and close-ups showing botanical details like involucres and the stipelike bases of the perianths on our earlier trips out west. I guess we will just have to go back. (The NARGS annual meeting is in Oregon in 1998!)
Eriogonum
caespitosum (186k file) in Central Idaho. An absolutely incredible
little plant with gorgeous flowres. G.R.A.S!
Eriogonum
heracleoides in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, July 1996, differs
from E. umbellatum in that it almost always has a whorl of leaves half-way
up the flowering stem. It grows in many places in
the mountains (picture of habitat) of the Western U.S.
Another picture of E.
heracleoides 
Eriogonum
lobbii on Mt. Rose in Nevada
Eriogonum
sp. near in the Sierra Nevada Mtns. of California near lake Tahoe.
A wonderful bun type plant with little pale yellow pom-poms.
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Eriogonum
ovalifolium v ovalifolium at Craters of the Moon Nat. Mon. (White tomentose
on upper and lower surfaces of each leaf) These are the darkend dried perianths
being persistant. This is the black volcanic cinders they grow in, talk
about well drained soil!
I
believe this is Eriogonum
ovalifolium v. depressum (greenish on upper surface of each leaf).
It was blooming at Crater's of the Moon Nat. Mon. Idaho in July 1996 in
the same habitat as the above variety.
Eriogonum
sp. in Idaho, with very nice yellow capitate flowers.
Another Eriogonum sp. with yellow capitate flowers but with much shorter stems and very silvery leaves, in Idaho also. (click here for picture)
Eriogonum umbellatum
at
Crater's of the Moon Nat. Monument in Idaho
Eriogonum umbellatum 
-
a form with pink buds growing in central Idaho. Note the whorl of leaves
at the top of the flower stem, immediately under the umbel.
