Eriogonum inflatum (Desert Trumpet)

4/3/17 CA 190W between Emigrant and Towne Pass,

Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, CA

4/3/17 Day use area off CA 190 between Stovepipe Wells and Emigrant,

Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, CA

 5/23/98 Desert View Nature Trail, 
Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County, CA

4/4/04 Wash on east side of Cottonwood Road (Eagle Mtns. side), 

between I-10 and visitor center of Joshua Tree National Park, 
Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Desert Trumpet

SPECIES: Eriogonum inflatum

FAMILY: Polygonaceae (Buckwheat Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 5/23/1998

LOCATION: Desert View Nature Trail, Red Rock Canyon State Park, Kern County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

[Group 4] Annual or perennial herb 10–150 cm

Leaves basal; blade 5–50 mm, oblong to reniform, ± coarsely short-hairy

Inflorescence cyme-like, glabrous, glaucous; main axes generally wider below nodes; bracts scale-like; involucres on erect or spreading, thread-like stalks, 1–1.5 mm, teeth 5

Flower: perianth 1–3 mm, yellow, coarsely white-hairy, lobes narrowly ovate

Fruit 2–2.5 mm, glabrous

Ecology: Dry sand or gravel

Elevation: -15–2000 m.  

Bioregional distribution: Great Basin Floristic Province, Desert 

Distribution outside California: to Colorado, New Mexico, nw Mexico