Eriogonum luteolum var. pedunculatum

Mokelumne hill wild buckwheat, Mokelumne Hill Wild Buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Mokelumne hill wild buckwheat is a California native annual found in the Sierra Nevada Foothills on serpentine landscapes at elevations of 100 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from June to October, this plant produces delicate white flowers approximately 1 to 1.5 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 3 to 6 decimeters tall and glabrous throughout, it develops an open, graceful form. Its leaves are primarily basal with wide blades, creating a soft, spreading base for the plant's slender inflorescence that can extend 10 to 50 centimeters. The plant's small white flowers cluster in distinctive involucres 3 to 3.5 millimeters wide, often sitting atop short erect peduncles.

Habitat: Serpentine

Bloom period: Jun-Oct

Elevation: 100-1500 m

Bioregions: SNF.

California counties: Mariposa, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Placer, Sierra, Tulare, Nevada, Plumas, Tuolumne, Sutter

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