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Eriogonum allenii S. Wats.  
Family: Polygonaceae
shale barren buckwheat
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James L. Reveal in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Herbs, erect, 3-5(-7) × 0.5-1 dm, tomentose. Stems: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect, stout, solid, not fistulose, arising directly from a taproot, 2-4 dm, tomentose. Leaves basal, not in rosettes; petiole 5-15 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade oblong to ovate, (5-)10-15 × 4-8 cm, densely brownish-white-tomentose abaxially, floccose or glabrous and green adaxially, margins entire, plane. Inflorescences compound-umbellate, 10-40(-50) × 8-30(-50) cm; branches tomentose; bracts 3-6, leaflike at proximal node, 1-10(-12) × 0.5-4(-5) cm, often scalelike distally. Involucres 1 per node, campanulate, 3-5(-7) × (4-)5-8 mm, tomentose; teeth 5-7, erect or slightly spreading, 0.8-1.5 mm. Flowers 3-7 mm, including 1-1.5 mm stipelike base; perianth bright yellow, densely pubescent abaxially; tepals dimorphic, those of outer whorl broadly lanceolate to elliptic, 3-6 × 1.5-3 mm, those of inner whorl elliptic to fan-shaped, 4-7 × 2.5-4 mm; stamens exserted, 3-5(-7) mm; filaments pilose proximally. Achenes light brown to brown, 4-6 mm, glabrous except for sparsely pubescent beak. Flowering Jun-Oct. Rocky shale slopes, oak and pine woodlands; 400-800 m; Va., W.Va. Eriogonum allenii is restricted to the Appalachian shale barrens of Virginia (Alleghany, Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Craig, Frederick, Highland, Montgomery, and Shenandoah counties) and West Virginia (Greenbrier, Monroe, and Pendleton counties), where it is local and infrequent, and found in four geographic areas of concentration. The plants are protected at The Nature Conservancy's Slaty Mountain site in Monroe County, West Virginia, and in Douthat State Park in Bath County, Virginia. The species occasionally is cultivated.

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Tomentose perennial 3-5 dm, erect from a thick, woody root, branched above; lvs glabrescent above, the basal ones long-petioled, with ovate or ovate-oblong blade 5-15 נ2-7 cm, the cauline ones in whorls of 3-5, short-petiolate, oval or oblong, progressively reduced; infl broad and rather flat-topped, with many invols, these 6-8 mm, lobed to the middle; perianth tapering to a shortly stipitate base; tep bright yellow, broad, obtuse, 3 mm, the outer glabrous, the inner inconspicuously hairy below; filaments villous toward the base. Shale-barrens; w. Va. and adj. W.Va. July, Aug

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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