Eriogonum corymbosum Benth.

Shrubs or subshrubs, spreading, rounded, occasionally erect, rarely somewhat matted, not scapose, (0.5-)1.5-8(-15) × (2-)3-15(-23) dm, grayish-to reddish-brown-tomentose to floccose or glabrous, grayish or greenish. Stems spreading or erect, often with persistent leaf bases, up to 3/ 4 or more height of plant; caudex stems absent or somewhat matted; aerial flowering stems erect or nearly so, slender or occasionally stout, solid, not fistulose, (0.1-)1-2 dm, tomentose to floccose, occasionally glabrous. Leaves cauline, 1 per node; petiole 0.1-1.5 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade lanceolate to oblanceolate or elliptic to nearly orbiculate, rarely cordate, (0.5-)1-3(-4.5) × (0.3-)0.5-3(-3.5) cm, densely white-, tannish-or brownish-tomentose on both surfaces or less so to nearly glabrous and green adaxially, margins occasionally crenulate. Inflorescences cymose, rarely capitate or umbellate, diffuse to rather open, (1-)3-20 × 2-25(-30) cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose, floccose, or rarely glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, usually triangular, and 1-3(-6) mm, or leaflike, 10-25 mm, and similar to leaf blades. Peduncles absent. Involucres 1 per node, turbinate, (1-)1.5-3.5 × 1-2(-2.5) mm; teeth 5, erect, 0.3-1 mm. Flowers (1.5-)2-3.5 mm; perianth white to cream, pink, or pale yellow to yellow, glabrous or rarely sparsely pilose; tepals connate proximal 4-3, essentially monomorphic, oblanceolate to spatulate; stamens included to slightly exserted, 1-4(-5) mm; filaments typically pilose proximally. Achenes brown, 2-2.5(-3) mm, glabrous except for occasional papillate beak.

Sandy to gravelly or clayey flats, washes, slopes, outcrops, and cliffs, saltbush, blackbrush, and sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper and montane conifer woodlands; 1200-2700 metres.

The leaves are boiled and then mixed with water and cornmeal and baked into bread. The stalks are pressed into caked. These are dried and eaten with salt.

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.