John Rusk
J20170803-0006—Eriogonum latifolium—RPBG—DxO
Eriogonum latifolium—coast buckwheat. The species is found along coastal cliffs and shorelines from southern Oregon to San Luis Obispo County and the northern California Channel Islands. The color of the inflorescence ranges from whitish to pinkish to reddish, sometimes with different color flowers on each inflorescence. Coast buckwheat is the host plants for many species of butterflies and moths. One of these,, Smith's blue butterfly (Euphilotes enoptes smithi), is an endangered species. Smith's blue, was first collected in 1948 near Dolans Creek by two U. C. Berkeley undergraduates, Rudi Mattoni and Claude I. Smith. Smith later drowned in an accident while fishing from a rock at Half Moon Bay. Mattoni went on to write a doctoral dissertation on the new species, which he named in honor of his deceased friend.
J20170803-0006—Eriogonum latifolium—RPBG—DxO
Eriogonum latifolium—coast buckwheat. The species is found along coastal cliffs and shorelines from southern Oregon to San Luis Obispo County and the northern California Channel Islands. The color of the inflorescence ranges from whitish to pinkish to reddish, sometimes with different color flowers on each inflorescence. Coast buckwheat is the host plants for many species of butterflies and moths. One of these,, Smith's blue butterfly (Euphilotes enoptes smithi), is an endangered species. Smith's blue, was first collected in 1948 near Dolans Creek by two U. C. Berkeley undergraduates, Rudi Mattoni and Claude I. Smith. Smith later drowned in an accident while fishing from a rock at Half Moon Bay. Mattoni went on to write a doctoral dissertation on the new species, which he named in honor of his deceased friend.