Eriogonum deflexum

Herbs, erect to spreading, annual, (0.5–)1–10(–20) dm, glabrous, occasionally glaucous, greenish to grayish. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect, solid or occasionally hollow and fistulose, 0.3–3(–4) dm, glabrous, occasionally glaucous. Leaves basal; petiole 1–7 cm, usually floccose; blade cordate to reniform or nearly orbiculate, 1–2.5(–4) × 2–4(–5) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, less so to floccose or subglabrous and grayish to greenish adaxially, margins entire. Inflorescences cymose, open to diffuse, flat-topped, spreading, hemispheric or narrowly erect and strict with whiplike branches, 10–90(–180) × 5–50 cm; branches glabrous, occasionally glaucous; bracts 3, scalelike, 1–3 × 0.5–1.5 mm. Peduncles absent or deflexed, rarely some ± erect distally, straight, slender to stout, 0.1–1.5 cm, glabrous. Involucres narrowly turbinate to turbinate, 1.5–2.5(–3) × 1–2.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, (0.2–)0.5–1 mm. Flowers 1–2.5 mm; perianth white to pink, with greenish to reddish midribs, becoming pinkish to reddish, glabrous; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl oblong or cordate to ovate, those of inner whorl lanceolate to narrowly ovate; stamens included, 1–1.5 mm; filaments glabrous or sparsely pilose proximally. Achenes brown to dark brown, 3-gonous, (1.5–)2–3 mm, glabrous.

Eriogonum Deflexum

Eriogonum deflexum

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