Bright yellow abruptly enlarged flower heads.4. Short leaf stalks, woolly, leaves wider at tips than at stems. Lassen and Modoc counties, California, Washoe County, Nevada, and southeastern Oregon. Within the public lands managed by the Surprise Field Office , there is one population in Nevada on private lands at upper end of Hays Canyon. Dry barren rocky slopes and flats within the sagebrush-juniper to Jeffery pine forest types.
Populations occur in very sparsely vegetated, shallow soiled areas.
Eriogonum caespitosum but it has reflexed leaf like lobes beneath flower head and prostrate buckwheat has none. Eriogonum ovalifolium , but it has oval, long narrow petioled leaves. Eriogonum douglasii , but it has a larger flower head, varying from white to yellow or reddish, with a whorl of leaves midway up the flower stem. This is a U.S. Government computer system. Before continuing please read this Disclaimer , Privacy Policy , and Kid s Privacy Policy .