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ballhead sandwort
Eremogone congesta
Eremogone congesta is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name ballhead sandwort. It is native to western North America from central Canada to the American southwest.
From the article Eremogone congesta on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
This is a perennial herb forming a tuft of slender upright stems up to about 40 centimeters (16 in) tall. The leaves are needlelike to thready, up to 8 centimeters (3.1 in) long and only a few millimeters wide. They may be fleshy or flat and they often have a very sharp tip. Most of the leaves are located in a patch at the base of the plant, and there are a few scattered along the mostly naked stem. The inflorescence is an open or rounded cyme of five-petalled white flowers. The fruit is a toothed capsule containing several reddish seeds.
At the table
The plant was used for a variety of medicinal purposes by Native American groups, including the Shoshone.
Wikipedia: “Uses”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Eremogone congesta in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 76860.