About Eriogonum lobbii Torr. & A.Gray
Eriogonum lobbii Torr. & A.Gray is a low-lying perennial with a woody caudex that spreads to a maximum width of about 40 centimeters. It grows in rocky areas, where it forms a patch of round, paddle-shaped, woolly, gray-green leaves ranging from 1 to 20 centimeters wide. Its inflorescence is rarely erect; instead, it droops or extends parallel to the ground, and rarely reaches higher than 15 centimeters. At the end of each prostrate stem sits a puffy, woolly, rounded cluster of flowers. Each individual flower is less than 1 centimeter wide, with petals united into a five-fold cup, and its color may range from cream to yellowish or pink, with red stripes. When growing on level ground, the flowerheads surround the cluster of basal leaves; when growing on a hillside, all of the flowerheads droop downhill.
