Genus Eriogonum (Noun)
Meaning
North American herbs of the buckwheat family.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Eriogonum, also known as the genus Eriogonum, comprises over 250 species of North American herbs in the buckwheat family, often growing in clusters of woody branches.
- Members of the genus Eriogonum display wide variability in shape and color across their habitats, providing great biodiversity among North American herbs of the buckwheat family.
- Desert shrubs in the genus Eriogonum frequently flower from summer into the early fall with inflorescences typically comprising one or many stalked or unstalked involucres in dense cymes or spikes.
- Common Buckwheat is an important food plant, which also is in the genus Eriogonum of the North American buckwheat family of herbs and was historically considered suitable food.
- Phylogenetic and chemical data often indicates wide varieties among many desert flora belonging to the genus Eriogonum family which covers hundreds of unique plants from among the family Polygonaceae and grows often clustered at elevations, well-known through native knowledge systems to first settlers from first documentation at areas well through mountains found known nearby into zones adjacent major wilderness where for forager travel studies best allow indigenous foods understood be not beyond great difficult distance including elevation local family related high numbers polygon Eriogonum documented indigenous that appear regularly mentioned research nearby specific geography documenting not greatly change modern available day recordsUsageIdIntializedTRGLi'.