Eriogonum gracilipes S.Watson is a plant in the Polygonaceae family, order Caryophyllales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Eriogonum gracilipes S.Watson

Eriogonum gracilipes S.Watson

Eriogonum gracilipes is a small mat-forming perennial herb with clustered hairy leaves and bright raspberry red flowers.

Family
Genus
Eriogonum
Order
Caryophyllales
Class
Magnoliopsida
⚠️ Toxicity Note

Insufficient toxicity evidence; avoid direct contact and ingestion.

About Eriogonum gracilipes S.Watson

Eriogonum gracilipes S.Watson is a small perennial herb that grows as a flat mat reaching up to 20 centimeters (7.9 inches) wide. Its individual leaves are all under two centimeters long, covered in a coat of dense white hairs, and grow in tightly packed clusters along the ground. When blooming, this plant produces flower stalks that bear rounded clusters of bright raspberry red flowers; each individual flower is only a few millimeters wide.

Photo: (c) Jim Morefield, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Caryophyllales Polygonaceae Eriogonum

More from Polygonaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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