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Eriogonum molle, known by common name as the Cedros soft buckwheat,[1] is a species of wild buckwheat endemic to Cedros Island, Mexico.

Cedros soft buckwheat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Polygonaceae
Genus:	Eriogonum
Species:	E. molle
Binomial name
Eriogonum molle Greene, 1888

Description

A shrubby plant, the leafy branches of Eriogonum molle reach about a foot or two high. The leaves are oblong, and obtuse at both ends, and are 2 to 4 inches long, attached to petioles nearly as long, cinereous above and beneath, with a dense, short, velvety pubescence and altogether devoid of white wool. The involucres are few, many-flowered, and corymbose on top of stout, naked peduncles that are a foot or two long.[2]

Taxonomy

This species was discovered by Edward Lee Greene on a journey to the northern end of Cedros Island. He later described it in the first volume of Pittonia.[2][3]

Distribution and habitat

This plant is only known from the rocky, extreme northern end of Cedros Island, scattered along summits and ridges.[1] It shares a community with primarily succulent species, such as Agave sebastiana, Dudleya albiflora and Dudleya pachyphytum, all fed by the marine fog that frequently covers the northern end of the island.[3]

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