Family | POLYGONACEAE |
Genus species | Eriogonum exilifolium Reveal sect. Eucycla |
Bibliography | Great Basin Naturalist 27: 114 (1967) |
Native Range | Colorado to Wyoming |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 2200-2600m |
Description | taproot, basal leaves narrowly linear, 3-6cm long, green, adaxially subglabrous, abaxially densely white lanate, inflorescence cymose-umbellate, involucres single, turbinate |
Size | 3-10cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | + |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 7 Northern America 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, WYO Wyoming) |