Eriogonum fasciculatum
Common name:
California Buckwheat
Eastern Mojave Buckwheat
Pronunciation:
er-ih-OG-uh-num fas-sik-yoo-LAH-tum
Family:
Polygonaceae
Genus:
Type:
Broadleaf
Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon:
No
- Low rounded evergreen shrub (some say herbaceous perennial), variable in appearance, from compact to wide spreading (branches to 90 cm). Leaves simple, alternate, 5-15 mm long, in tufts or clusters on branchlets, more or less lanceolate (linear), green above, wooly-white below, margin inrolled (reflexed). Flowers may be white, cream, yellow or pink, about 3 mm wide, borne in terminal loosely arranged clusters; blooms from late spring to early fall.
- Sun, best in well-drained, loose, gravely soil. Flowers attract butterflies and birds eat the seeds.
- Hardy to USDA Zone 7 Native range extends from California, Utah and Arizona in the north to northern Mexico and Baja California in the south.
- fasciculatum: clustered or grouped together in bundles, presumably the flowers
- Oregon State Univ. campus: on the bank north of the East Greenhouse
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plant habit, start of flowering, late spring
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leaves
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developing flower clusters
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plant habit, flowering
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flowering branches
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flower clusters
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fruit cluster
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flower
