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Eriogonum umbellatum (Sulpher-Flower) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Eriogonum umbellatum

Common names: Sulpher-Flower, sulfur flower buckwheat

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Polygonaceae

Roles: habitat component, study subject, pollen source

ITIS TSN: 21266

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 36 | Mentions: 50

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Knowledge graph centered on Eriogonum umbellatum with 79 nodes and 387 connections. Top connected: Subalpine meadow flowering phenology responses to , Hummingbird, Bombus, Ipomopsis, Ligusticum porteri.

Publications (36)

Wind-driven seed dispersal differentially promotes seed trapping and retention across alpine plants

2026American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Alpine plant spatial clumping modifies leaf surface temperature

2025Role: text_match

Alpine plants of Mt. Baldy: modeling phenology and documenting biodiversity

2025Role: text_match

Foraging preferences of generalist Megachilidae

2025Role: text_match

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

2025Role: text_match

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: pollen source

Effects of microclimate, dispersal, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on demography

2023Role: study subject

Host specificity of hemiparasitic Castilleja and its influence on plant community diversity.

Documents (3)

technical report

1980

Homestake Mining Company Pitch Project Environmental Statement

environmental assessment

Vegetation Appendix Materials for Vegetation and Wildlife Studies for the Mount Emmons Project

Co-occurring Species

Lupinus

Fabaceae34 shared papers

Heterotheca villosa

Asteraceae30 shared papers

Potentilla

Rosaceae29 shared papers

Senecio

Asteraceae27 shared papers

Delphinium

Ranunculaceae26 shared papers

Erigeron

Asteraceae25 shared papers

Penstemon

Plantaginaceae25 shared papers

Agoseris

Asteraceae24 shared papers

Lupinus argenteus

Fabaceae24 shared papers

Agoseris glauca

Asteraceae23 shared papers

2023

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Linking microenvironment modification to species interactions and demography in an alpine plant community

2023OikosRole: text_match

Investigating the air temperatures of different taxa in an alpine plant community

2021Role: text_match

Nectar Variation in Simple and Compound Flowers; and its Effects on Plant Pollinator Interactions

2021Role: text_match

Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

2020Frontiers in Plant Science. doi 10.3389/fpls.2020.590347Role: text_match

Temporal flexibility in the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks

2020OikosRole: text_match

Intraspecific flower color variation along elevation gradients

2019Role: text_match

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

2019Role: text_match

Productivity of Montane Meadows in a Warming World: Evidence from an Elevation Gradient and a Warming Experiment

2016Role: text_match

Temporal ecology of a subalpine ecosystem: Plant communities, plant-pollinator interactions, & climate change.

2016Role: text_match

The Changing Floral Color Landscape Across an Alpine Elevation Gradient

2016Role: text_match

Plant Successional Changes Over 67 Years on the Gothic Earthflow.

2014Role: text_match

Revisiting Darwin's hypothesis: Does greater intraspecific variability increase species' ecological breadth?

2014American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

Measuring the influence of phylogenetic relationships on floral visitation

2013Role: text_match

"With a little help from my friends": Phylogenetic distance as a predictor of floral visitation in the plant communities of Gothic, CO.

2012Role: text_match

Emergence of a mid-season period of low floral resources in a montane meadow ecosystem associated with climate change

2011Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

Intraspecific variation of specific leaf area along an elevational gradient

2011Role: text_match

The effects of hemiparasitism by <i> Castilleja</i> spp on community structure in alpine ecosystems

2011Role: text_match

Testing the predictions of the Maximum Information Entropy Theory for abundance and energy distributions on the Gothic earthflow

2010Role: text_match

A test of species-area theory on a high disturbance area of the Gothic earthflow

2009Role: text_match

Is there a positive correlation between bee size and size parameters of the flowers the bees visit for pollen to provision their nests?

2009Role: text_match

Plant community composition with respect to species richness along an altitudinal gradient in gunnison county, co

2009Role: text_match

Species richness along an elevational gradient

2009Role: text_match

Species richness along elevation gradient and possible correlation factors

2009Role: text_match

The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

2009OikosRole: text_match

The relationships among butterfly size, visitation rate, handling time, and floral display size

2009Role: text_match

Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

Subalpine meadow flowering phenology responses to climate change: integrating experimental and gradient methods

2003Ecological MonographsRole: text_match

A study of plant succession on the Gothic earthflow

1969Role: text_match