{"id":3555,"date":"2012-03-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/botany-a-to-z-eriogonum\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:26:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:26:47","slug":"botany-a-to-z-eriogonum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2012\/03\/28\/botany-a-to-z-eriogonum\/","title":{"rendered":"Botany A to Z: Eriogonum"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nby Karin Decker<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nis for Eriogonum<\/span><\/div>\n

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\n\ufeffEriogonums are buckwheats, members of the Polygonaceae or knotweed family. The cultivated buckwheat that we use for cereal, pancake flour, noodles, etc. is in this family, but is not the same genus as our wild buckwheats.<\/div>\n

\nOur wild buckwheats are found from the plains to the alpine, in all sorts of habitats. Like many rare plants, some of the rarest species seem to specialize on unusual soils. Eriogonum brandegeei<\/i><\/span> especially likes the Dry Union Formation, which has a high proportion of bentonite clay.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Dry Union Formation in the foreground – home of Eriogonum brandegeei. <\/i>Fertile loam it isn’t, but the view is fantastic<\/span>.<\/div>\n

\nBoth the endangered Eriogonum pelinophilum<\/i> (clayloving buckwheat) and the strange-looking E. inflatum<\/i> thrive on the Mancos Shale, another of those grayish-brown, turns-to-concrete-on-your-boots-when-wet soils that rare species seem to love. <\/p>\n

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\nE. pelinophilum<\/i> habitat. Makes you feel a little parched, doesn’t it?<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nE. pelinophilum<\/i> thriving on the Mancos Shale in the bright sunshine.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\nE. inflatum.<\/i> A stand of these strange plants looks like an alien invasion.<\/span><\/div>\n

\nColorado is home to about 50 species or varieties of Eriogonum \u2013 CNHP tracks 16 species, and three of them are endemic to the state:<\/p>\n

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\nDocumented locations of rare Eriogonum species in Colorado. Endemic species are colored and labeled, non-endemic are gray.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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