Fraziers Well Buckwheat

(Eriogonum ripleyi)

galery

Description

A tuft- or mound-forming perennial herb. Stems are 5-15 cm long. Flower petals are white with a red stripe.On calcareous ridgetops or chalky carbonate Verde formations at 1,045 m; among pinyons at 1,830 m. Creosote bush community of the Sonoran Desertscrub, and Pinyon-Juniper Woodland of the Great Basin Conifer Woodland (Arizona Game and Fish Department 1997).

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Polygonaceae
Genus:Eriogonum
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