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§1 Plant
Eriogonum alatum Torr.
vernacular winged buckwheat — species · Polygonaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polygonaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Eriogonum
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 121 counties across 9 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 121 counties across 9 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Alamosa 08003
- Archuleta 08007
- Boulder 08013
- Cheyenne 08017
- Conejos 08021
- Custer 08027
- Delta 08029
- Douglas 08035
- El Paso 08041
- Huerfano 08055
- Jefferson 08059
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Logan 08075
- Mesa 08077
- Montezuma 08083
- Ouray 08091
- Park 08093
- Pueblo 08101
- Rio Blanco 08103
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- San Miguel 08113
- Teller 08119
- Weld 08123
- Yuma 08125
Kansas view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 22 N ▾
- Bernalillo 35001
- Catron 35003
- Chaves 35005
- Colfax 35007
- Curry 35009
- Eddy 35015
- Grant 35017
- Lincoln 35027
- Los Alamos 35028
- Mora 35033
- Otero 35035
- Rio Arriba 35039
- San Juan 35045
- San Miguel 35047
- Sandoval 35043
- Santa Fe 35049
- Sierra 35051
- Socorro 35053
- Taos 35055
- Torrance 35057
- Union 35059
- Valencia 35061
Oklahoma view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Texas view state ↗ 25 N ▾
- Armstrong 48011
- Brewster 48043
- Briscoe 48045
- Carson 48065
- Childress 48075
- Crosby 48107
- Culberson 48109
- Dallam 48111
- Dickens 48125
- Donley 48129
- Ellis 48139
- Floyd 48153
- Gray 48179
- Hall 48191
- Hemphill 48211
- Hudspeth 48229
- Hutchinson 48233
- Lipscomb 48295
- Lubbock 48303
- Motley 48345
- Ochiltree 48357
- Oldham 48359
- Potter 48375
- Randall 48381
- Roberts 48393
Utah view state ↗ 16 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/ERAL4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2889495 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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