Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Eriogonum tomentosum
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Dog-tongue Buckwheat at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eriogonum tomentosum
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 063-01-001:
Eriogonum tomentosum
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
COMMON NAME:
Sandhill Wild-buckwheat, Southern Wild-buckwheat, Dog-tongue Buckwheat
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JK Marlow jkm080713_041
July Aiken County SC
Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve
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July Aiken County SC
Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve
Stem leaves sessile, elliptical in outline, and borne 3-4 at a node, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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JK Marlow jkm080713_047
July Aiken County SC
Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve
Calyx of 2 whorls, each of 3 united sepals. Petals absent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm080713_049
July Aiken County SC
Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm080713_049b
July Aiken County SC
Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve
Flower heads sessile or short-stalked with 10-20 white to pinkish flowers, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers.
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July Aiken County SC
Aiken Gopher Tortoise Heritage Preserve
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_eriogonum_tomentosum
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmetomentosu_bearcreekb
Month Unknown
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Eriogonum tomentosum
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Eriogonum tomentosum
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 063-01-001:
Eriogonum tomentosum
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
2437
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Uncommon (rare in NC)
Look for it in sandhills, usually in white sand, primarily in the fall-line Sandhills and on riverine dunes in the middle and upper Coastal Plain, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Simple
Whorled (basal rosette usually absent or withered at flowering)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Creamy white/ Pinkish
Bisexual
6 sepals of two different sizes
Petals absent
Superior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Nutlet
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers p153
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p239
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p168
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p002
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p107