General:
Perennial herb or semi-shrub from a freely branched base, forming clumps or loose mats up to 60 cm wide; stems ascending to erect, simple, several, 10-40 cm tall/long, white woolly.
Leaves:
Basal leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, grey-hairy on both surfaces, the upper surface less hairy, the blades 3-10 cm long, narrowed gradually to the stalk; stem leaves lacking.
Flowers:
Inflorescence a compound umbel, subtended by a whorl of leaflike bracts; flower stalks usually with whorl of leaflike bracts at about midlength; involucres bell-shaped, woolly, 5- to 12-lobed, the lobes 2-3 mm long, at least half as long as tubes, reflexed or spreading; perianths white to cream or creamy yellow, occasionally rose-tinged, 3-4 mm long, 6-lobed, smooth.
Fruits:
Achenes, hairy above the middle.
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Eriogonum angustifolium Nutt.