Eriogonum hookeri

Hooker's wild buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Hooker's wild buckwheat is a California native annual found in the eastern Sierra Nevada in sandy or gravelly habitats at elevations of 1,300 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from June to October, this plant produces yellow to red-yellow flowers with round outer lobes and narrowly ovate inner lobes. Growing 10 to 60 centimeters tall with glabrous stems, it develops from a compact base with minimal branching. Its basal leaves are approximately round, 1 to 6 centimeters long, and covered in dense white tomentose (woolly) hair. The small involucres are reflexed and measure just 1 to 2 millimeters wide, with glabrous surfaces.

Habitat: Uncommon. Sand or gravel

Bloom period: Jun-Oct

Elevation: 1300-2500 m

Bioregions: SNE

California counties: Lake, Mono, Inyo

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