Eriogonum apiculatum
San jacinto wild buckwheat
Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native
San jacinto wild buckwheat is a California native annual found in the eastern San Bernardino Mountains, central and western Peninsular Ranges including Santa Rosa, Palomar, and Cuyamaca Mountains, and southwestern desert mountains at elevations of 700 to 2,700 meters in sandy habitats. Flowering from May to November, this plant produces white to reddish flowers with distinctive sharp-tipped perianth lobes. Growing with slender stems 2 to 9 decimeters tall, it develops an open, spreading inflorescence up to 80 centimeters wide. Its basal leaves are hairy, measuring 1 to 4 centimeters long and 0.5 to 1.5 centimeters wide, with some glandular surfaces. The small fruits are glabrous and measure 1.3 to 1.7 millimeters long.
Habitat: Sand
Bloom period: May-Nov
Elevation: (200)700-2700 m
Bioregions: e SnBr (Pipes Spring area, San Bernardino Co.), c&s PR (Santa Rosa, Palomar, Cuyamaca mtns), sw DMtns (Little San Bernardino Mtns).
California counties: Riverside, San Diego, San Bernardino, Tulare
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