Pronunciation: er-ee-OG-an-um tri-KO-pees
Common name: Little desert trumpet
Family: Polygonaceae (Buckwheat)
Habitat: Washes and mesas to 5500', creosote bush
scrub, joshua tree woodland, both deserts, inner
South Coast ranges
Blooming period: All year
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Eriogonum
2) trichopes