Eriogonum brachyanthum

Short-flower wild buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Short-flower wild buckwheat is a California native annual herb found in the eastern Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert bioregions in sandy habitats at elevations of 600 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from April to November, this plant produces pale yellow to white flowers less than one millimeter long. Growing with slender glabrous stems 5 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms compact low-growing plants. Its basal leaves are rounded, generally one to two centimeters long, and covered in soft woolly tomentose surfaces. The tiny flowers emerge in sparse, delicate branching clusters across sandy terrain.

Habitat: Common. Sand

Bloom period: Apr-Nov

Elevation: 600-2300 m

Bioregions: SNE, DMoj

California counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Ventura, Inyo, Kern, Mono, Riverside, San Diego

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.