Eriogonum cernuum

Family: Polygonaceae
Common Name: Nodding buckwheat
Symbol: ERCE
Description: Annual, 5-60 cm tall, from a slender taproot; stems spreading to erect, diffusely branched at or above the base, glabrous. Leaves clustered in a basal rosette, on tomentose petioles 1-4 cm long; blades round-ovate to orbicular, with entire margins, the upper surface grayish and tomentose to greenish and nearly glabrous, and the lower surface white- to gray-tomentose. Involucres arranged in cymose inflorescences up to 40 cm wide and up to 50 cm high, ascending or pendulous.