Eriogonum grande

Island buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Island buckwheat is a California native perennial found on the Channel Islands in coastal scrub and bluff habitats at elevations near sea level. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces white to pink or rose-colored flowers in large, spreading clusters 20 to 100 centimeters wide. Growing as a low-spreading mat or subshrub to 15 decimeters in diameter, it forms dense, rounded clumps with glabrous stems. Its basal leaves are tomentose, measuring 3 to 10 centimeters long and 2 to 6 centimeters wide, with soft, felt-like surfaces. The compact clusters of small flowers and distinctive mat-forming growth make this buckwheat a notable coastal plant.

California counties: Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles

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