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Comb Wash Wild Buckwheat (Eriogonum clavellatum)

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Photo by lauraklynn; tomkennedy
Laura; Thomas L. Kennedy

Comb Wash Wild Buckwheat

Comb Wash Wild Buckwheat (Eriogonum clavellatum)

Photo by lauraklynn; tomkennedy
Laura; Thomas L. Kennedy

Eriogonum clavellatum

NatureServe conservation status

Global (G-rank): G2
State (S-rank): S1S2

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Phenology

Flowering from May throughout July.

Species range

Eriognum clavellatum is endemic to the Colorado Plateaus and is found in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.

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Multicellular organisms that are autotrophic or make complex carbohydrates from basic constituents. Most use photosynthesis.

Flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary

Multicellular organisms that develop from the fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Heterotrophic - obtain food by ingestion.

Have skulls and backbones.

Cold blooded, lay eggs on land

Have feathers and lay eggs

Invertebrates with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages, and segmented bodies

Animals having 3 pair of legs, 3 body sections, generally 1 or 2 pair of wings, 1 pair of antennae.

Soft bodied animals with an internal or external shell and a toothed tongue or radula. Have a mantle that lines and secretes the shell and a muscular foot that allows for movement.

Two hinged lateral shells and a wedged shaped "foot". Bivalves lack tentacles and a head.


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