Eriogonum davidsonii

Davidson's wild buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Davidson's wild buckwheat is a California native annual found in southwestern California, southeastern Sierra Nevada, and Mojave Desert regions in sandy habitats at elevations of 900 to 2,600 meters. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces white to pink or red flowers in small, glabrous involucres 3 to 4 millimeters wide. Growing 1 to 5 decimeters tall with glabrous stems 0.5 to 1.5 decimeters long, it forms a delicate, spreading habit. Its basal leaves are approximately round, 1 to 2 centimeters long, with woolly undersides and sparsely hairy upper surfaces. The fruit is small, measuring 2 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Common. Sand

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: (400)900-2600 m

Bioregions: SW, SNE, DMoj

California counties: Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, Kern, Tulare, San Diego, Inyo, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Imperial, San Luis Obispo, Mono, San Benito

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