Shrubs, perennials and annuals. Most have flowers with sepals/petals in
multiples of three. Fruit also are three-sided. Sepals often pinkish or yellow.
Many, many species, just a few shown here (for now ... ).
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Wright's Buckwheat
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Eriogonum wrightii
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Flat-topped Buckwheat
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Eriogonum fasciculatum
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Perennial or slightly woody shrub. Flowers pinkish white
appearing spring and early fall. Leaves elliptic, silvery. Fairly common on
rocky bajadas at mid to upper elevations of the Sonoran Desert.
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Woody shrub at upper elevations of the Sonoran Desert - also
common in chaparral habitat. Numerous white-pink flowers in flat-topped
pincushion arrangement. Elliptical to almost linear leaves fascicled in clusters
at stem nodes.
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Desert Trumpet
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Eriogonum inflatum
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Skeleton Weed
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Eriogonum deflexum
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Tall stems with inflated, trumpet shape support numerous,
widely spaced yellow flowers. Leaves are all basal. Common along washes and on
rocky slopes.
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Roundish leaves at ground level supporting a highly branched inflorescence with
whitish flowers at branch tips. Common in sandy, disturbed soil.
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Little Desert Trumpet
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Eriogonum trichopes
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Similar to Desert Trumpet but stems not swollen and plants smaller, mostly annual. Flowers yellow.
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Brittle Spine Flower
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Chorizanthe brevicornu
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Devil's Spineflower
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Chorizanthe rigida
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Annual herb emerging in spring after good rains. Small flowers
obscured by set of six, hooklike bracts. Intricately branched stems becoming
reddish and brittle.
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Annual of spring that persists through most of year as a
curiously branched and spiny skeleton. Small - usu. less than 15 cm tall.
Small yellowish flowers.
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Canaigre
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Rumex hymenosepalus
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Curly Dock
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Rumex crispus
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Perennial herb emerging in early spring within deep alluvium near desert washes and riparian streams. Large leaves and upright spikes of green and reddish flowers
and fruits.
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Weedy plant of agricultural setting or other moist, disturbed soil.
The leaf margins strongly wavy or "crisped".
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Curlytop Knotweed
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Polygonum lapathifolium
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Abert's Wild Buckwheat
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Eriogonum abertianum
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Upright annual herb of wet soils in riparian habitat and also
agricultural areas. Numerous small white flowers on nodding spikes.
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Late spring and summer annual mostly in the upper elevations of
the Sonoran Desert. Flowers white or pale yellow. Stems and leaves
hirsute.
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Spotted Ladysthumb
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Polygonum persicaria
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Threadstem
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Pterostegia drymarioides
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Narrow spikes of pinkish flowers on weak stemmed weed in
gardens or along wet canyons. Bristles on sheath margins.
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Inconspicuous and uncommon springtime herb that looks superficially like chickweed. Oddly two-lobed leaves.
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