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Eriogonum inflatum
Also called Bottle Stopper, Indian Pipeweed
Eriogonum inflatum, the desert trumpet, is a perennial plant of the family buckwheat family. The plant possesses very small yellow flowers and an inflated stem just below branching segments. It is found in the deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico as far east as western Colorado and the Four Corners region.
Desert trumpet is native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. In Mexico it is mostly found in the northwest, where it grows in Baja California Sur, Baja California, and Sonora, but it also grows to the east in Chihuahua.
A mixture of wild tobacco and creosote mistletoe would be smoked as a medicine by the Moapa Band of Paiute people. The species was recommended by the botanist Lester Rowntree as a garden plant.
Abert's buckwheat · Winged buckwheat · Shale barren buckwheat · Trinity buckwheat · Mono buckwheat · Anglestem buckwheat · San Jacinto buckwheat · Ione buckwheat · Santa Cruz Island buckwheat · Clay buckwheat · Sulphur Hot Springs buckwheat · Bailey's buckwheat
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriogonum inflatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
