St. Catherine's-lace (Plants of the Foothill College California Native Plant Garden)

St. Catherine's-lace

Eriogonum giganteum

Family ²

Polygonaceae

Description ³

Large shrubs, round to erect, alternate oblong-ovate leaves that are white-tomentose abaxially, sometimes slightly less so or cinereous to somewhat glabrate and greenish adaxially. Inflorescences cymose, open or compact, with white to rose flowers. Fruits are brown.

Community ²

Chaparral, Coastal Sage Scrub

Flowering ²

May-Aug

Garden location ²

M, K

Associated Species ⁴

The Avalon scrub-hairstreak butterfly (Strymon avalona), which is endemic to Santa Catalina Island, uses Eriogonum giganteum as a food plant.
All species of Eriogonumare important sources of food for the following groups/species:

native bees (pollen / nectar) XERCES
predatory or parasitoid insects XERCES
butterflies

Mormon metalmark Apodemia mormo (host) ASB
Bramble Hairstreak Butterfly Callophrys perplexa (host) BMNA
Comstock's Hairstreak Callophrys sheridanii comstocki (host) BMNA
Bernardino Dotted-Blue Euphilotes bernardino (host) BMNA
Small Dotted-Blue Philotiella speciosa (host) BMNA
Acmon Blue Plebejus acmon (host) ASB
Lupine Blue Plebejus lupini (host) ASB

Sources and Credits

(c) gillian360, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
(c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4950707
Adapted by gillian360 from a work by (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/19793716

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