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Eriastrum
Sign in to saveEriastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the phlox family which are known commonly as woollystars. These wildflowers are somewhat diverse in appearance but are usually erect, thin-stemmed herbs which bear purple to white blooms. Most species have inflorescences which are webbed with a woolly mesh of white fibers. Woollystars are native to western North America.
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Vinony files it under Eriastrum, Flora of Northern America and Polemoniaceae genera.
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Species
giant woollystar
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderEricales
- FamilyPolemoniaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 380
- With media
- 315
- Family
- Polemoniaceae
- Collections
- IBUNAM, ASC, MO, GH, SBBG, DAV
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Polemoniaceae
- Image
- Eriastrum eremicum 3.jpg
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- Commons category
- Eriastrum
- topic's main category
- Category:Eriastrum
- taxon name
- Eriastrum
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- woollystar
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Encyclopedic overview
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Eriastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the phlox family which are known commonly as woollystars. These wildflowers are somewhat diverse in appearance but are usually erect, thin-stemmed herbs which bear purple to white blooms. Most species have inflorescences which are webbed with a woolly mesh of white fibers. Woollystars are native to western North America.
==Species== 18 species are accepted. Eriastrum abramsii - Abrams' woollystar Eriastrum calocyanum Eriastrum densifolium - giant woollystar Eriastrum diffusum - miniature woollystar Eriastrum eremicum - desert woollystar Eriastrum ertterae Eriastrum filifolium - lavender woollystar Eriastrum harwoodii Eriastrum hooveri - Hoover's woollystar Eriastrum luteum - yellow woollystar Eriastrum pluriflorum - Tehachapi woollystar Eriastrum rosamondense Eriastrum sapphirinum - sapphire woollystar Eriastrum signatum Eriastrum sparsiflorum - Great Basin woollystar Eriastrum tracyi (syn. Eriastrum brandegeeae ) - Brandegee's woollystar Eriastrum virgatum - wand woollystar Eriastrum wilcoxii - Wilcox's woollystar
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eriastrum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.