| Parsnipflower Buckwheat | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Polygonaceae |
| Genus: | Eriogonum |
| Species: | E. heracleoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Eriogonum heracleoides Nutt. |
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Eriogonum heracleoides (common names Parsnipflower buckwheat, Whorled buckwheat, and Wyeth buckwheat[1]) has many flowering clusters that are cream or off-white in color. Its usual habitat is rocky areas such as sagebrush deserts and Ponderosa pine forests. Parsnipflower Buckwheat is in the genus Eriogonum and the family Polygonaceae which is a family of plants known as the "knotweed family". The Parsnipflower is a perennial flowering plant with flowers measuring 4–9 mm. They inhabit much of the western part of the United States.
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The Parsnipflower is a perennial flowering plant with flowers measuring 4–9 mm. Petiole leaves in loose rosettes, covered with soft hairs measuring 0.5-3 cm. Hairs feel woolly and matted and cover both sides of the leaf.[2]) The flowers have one carpel (achenes). Parsnipflower Buckwheat have a whorled arrangement of leaves at midpoint of the stem.Blooms in early to mid summer. Attracts butterflies, bees, insects, and birds and is the host plant for several Palouse butterflies. [3])
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