Eriogonum spp
Buckwheat
Eriogonum spp
CA Native, Shrub
Care:
Full Sun
Partial Shade
Very Low
Low
Well Drained
Look:
Medium
size
Small
size
Gray
leaves
Green
leaves
Pink
flowers
White
flowers
Yellow
flowers
California Native
Buckwheat
Eriogonum spp
CA Native, Shrub
Care:
Full Sun
Partial Shade
Very Low
Low
Well Drained
Look:
Medium
size
Small
size
Gray
leaves
Green
leaves
Pink
flowers
White
flowers
Yellow
flowers
Diverse group of flowering, evergreen shrubs and perennials and annuals found throughout the western United States. Most available in nurseries are native to California and generally prefer drier sites. Flowers colors include yellow, white, pink, and red and are held above foliage in umbels that dry over time and are popular in flower arrangements. Buckwheats provide pollen and nectar for bees and butterflies, larval food for butterflies, seeds for birds, and cover for many creatures.
Examples:
- Santa Cruz Island buckwheat (E. arborescens, 3-4’ x 4-5’) densely mounded with white flowers.
- Saffron buckwheat (E. crocatum, 1-2’ x 2-3’) with chartreuse-yellow flowers and pale leaves.
- California buckwheat (E. fasciculatum, 2-3’ x 3’) and its low-growing cultivars such as E. f. ‘Warriner Lytle.’
- Catherine’s lace (E. giganteum, 4-8’ x 6-10’) with delicate, white flowers and soft pale leaves.
- Red-flowered buckwheat (E. grande var. Rubescens, 1-2’ x 2-3’) low-mounding perennial with rose-pink flowers, coastal bluff buckwheat (E. latifolium, up to 12” x 1-2’.)
- Sulfur buckwheat (E. umbellatum, 6-18” x 1-3’) with intense yellow flowers and cultivars E. u. var. aureum ‘Kannah Creek’ and E. u. Var. ‘Shasta Sulphur’.