Woollycup buckwheat

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Woollycup buckwheat

Woollycup buckwheat

Woollycup buckwheat flowers

Woollycup buckwheat leaves

Woollycup buckwheat inflorescence

Woollycup buckwheat

Woollycup buckwheat

Woollycup buckwheat flowers

Woollycup buckwheat

Woollycup buckwheat

Woollycup buckwheat habit

Morphology

Stem

Flowering stem erect, slender, solid, gray-woolly; smaller stems unbranched, larger stems 1- or 2-branched

Leaves

Basal, tufted or mat-forming, blades narrowly elliptic, lanceolate or oblanceolate, .4 to 2 inches long, 1/8 to 1/5 inch wide, surfaces densely white-woolly, margins sometimes rolled under, stalks to 1 inch long.

Inflorescence

Head-like cluster, terminal.

Flower

Involucres bell-shaped, 1/8 to 1/5 inch long, woolly outside, sessile and stalked; perianth yellow, densely pubescent outside; perianth segments 6, alike, lanceolate, united below; stamens 9, extending beyond perianth.

Fruit

Achene, 1/8 to 1/6 inch long, densely woolly, 1-seeded.

Ecology

Habitat

Rocky slopes, shale mesas, and clay banks; dry soils.

Distribution

Southwest 1/8 of Kansas.

Practical Information

Uses

The Navajo used the crushed roots in treatment of diarrhea.