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Eriogonum cinereum occurs naturally along the Pacific Coast in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties, and also on Santa Rosa Island. It is infrequently planted along highways (and is now found in San Diego County) and hybridizes with E. fasciculatum var. foliolosum. The species is the food plant of the Bernardino dotted-blue butterfly (Euphilotes bernardino).
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Shrubs, round, 6-15 × 10-20(-25) dm, tomentulose, grayish. Stems spreading, occasionally with persistent leaf bases, up to 3/ 4 or more height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect to spreading, slender, solid, not fistulose, 1-4 dm, tomentulose. Leaves cauline, 1 per node; petiole 0.1-0.5(-1) cm, tomentulose; blade ovate, 1.5-3 × 1-2.5(-3) cm, white-tomentulose abaxially, less so and greenish adaxially, margins plane. Inflorescences capitate, congested, 1-2.5 × 1-2.5 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentulose; bracts usually 3, scalelike, triangular, and 1-3 mm, or leaflike, ovate, and 7-20 × 5-18 mm. Peduncles absent. Involucres 3-10 per cluster, narrowly turbinate, 3-5 × 2-3 mm, tomentulose; teeth 5, erect, 0.2-0.5 mm. Flowers 2.5-3 mm; perianth white to pinkish, densely white-villous; tepals connate proximally, monomorphic, spatulate to narrowly obovate; stamens exserted, 2.5-3.5 mm; filaments subglabrous. Achenes brown, 2-2.5 mm, glabrous. 2n = 80.
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Sandy beaches, coastal bluffs, mesas, canyon slopes, coast scrub and chaparral communities; of conservation concern; 0-400m.
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Eriogonum cinereum
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Eriogonum cinereum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common names coastal buckwheat and ashyleaf buckwheat.[3][2][4]
Distribution
This shrub is endemic to the coastline of Southern California, primarily within Los Angeles County and Ventura County.[3]
It grows on beaches in coastal strand habitats and on bluffs and lower slopes of the Western Transverse Ranges, including the Santa Monica Mountains, in chaparral coastal sage scrub habitats below 400 metres (1,300 ft).[3][2]
Description
Eriogonum cinereum can reach from 2–4 feet (0.61–1.22 m) in height and width. It is light silvery gray in color due to the woolly hairs on its stems and foliage. The leaves are wavy-edged ovals one to three centimeters long.[2]
The inflorescences stick out from the plant, each with one to several flower cluster heads of tiny tightly-packed frilly flowers which are usually light whitish-pink to brownish-pink in color, and quite hairy.[2]
Uses
This is the foodplant for Euphilotes bernardino, the Bernardino dotted blue butterfly. Buckwheats (Eriogonum sp.) are very important for various butterflies and native wasps.[5]
Cultivation
Eriogonum cinereum is cultivated as an ornamental plant, for planting in native plant, drought tolerant, and butterfly gardens and other wildlife gardens, and for larger designed natural landscaping and habitat restoration projects.[5]
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Eriogonum cinereum: Brief Summary
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Eriogonum cinereum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common names coastal buckwheat and ashyleaf buckwheat.
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