Eriogonum umbellatum var. versicolor

Plants herbs, spreading to somewhat prostrate mats, 1–3 dm tall, 1–4 dm across; aerial flowering stems usually erect, 0.5–1.5 dm long, floccose, without one or more foliaceous bracts about mid-length; leaves mostly in loose rosettes, the blades usually elliptic, 0.5–1.5 cm long, 0.3–1 cm wide, thinly tomentose on both surfaces, sometimes nearly or quite glabrous and green or becoming reddish adaxially, the margins plane; inflorescences umbellate or compound-umbellate, the branches 0.5–1 dm long, without a whorl of bracts about mid-length, floccose; involucral tubes 2–3 mm long, the lobes 1–2 mm long; flowers 3–6 mm long, the perianth yellow, becoming reddish-brown to rose or pink, with large reddish spot on each midrib.

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Flowering Jun-Sep. Gravelly to rocky flats, slopes, and ridges, sagebrush communities, montane conifer woodlands; 1900–3300 m; southern Nevada (Clark, Eureka, Lincoln, Lyon, Nye, and White Pine cos.) and eastern California (eastern Inyo and Mono cos.)

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Leaves mostly in loose rosettes, the blades usually elliptic, 0.5–1.5 cm long, 0.3–1 cm wide, thinly tomentose on both surfaces, sometimes nearly or quite glabrous and green or becoming reddish adaxially, the margins plane.

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