Eriogonum kennedyi var. purpusii

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Eriogonum kennedyi var. purpusii
Purpus Wild Buckwheat

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DERIVATION

kennedyi

-for William Ledlie Kennedy, 1827-?, collected plants in Kern County, CA,as well as other California areas, and sent specimans to the Rothrock collection at the Smithsonian Institution

purpusii

- named for brothers Carl Abert, 1851-1941, and Joseph Anton Purpus, 1860-1932, German plant collectors, worked in California and Mexico

Lonicera x purpusii is named for Joseph Purpus

Dioon purpusii is named for Carl Purpus

Eriogonum kennedyi var. purpusii was named for William Ledlie Kennedy and Carl Purpus

More than 200 species contain the names purpusii or purpusianus or purpusiorum are named in honor of the brothers

FAMILY

Polygonaceae (Buckwheat Family) Other Plants in the Buckwheat Family

HABIT

Herbaceous

GROWTH FORM

Prostrate

RANGE

W United States (California, Nevada)

FLOWERS

White;pink (To;rose-pink)

SUN REQUIREMENTS

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COMMON NAME(S)

Purpus Wild Buckwheat

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