Eriogonum molestum

Pineland wild buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Pineland wild buckwheat is a California native annual herb found in northern Western Transverse Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, and Peninsular Ranges in sandy habitats at elevations of 1,100 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces white to pink flowers with delicate oblong-obovate perianth lobes. Growing 40 to 100 centimeters tall with glabrous stems, it develops an open, spreading branching pattern up to 50 centimeters wide. Its basal leaves are approximately round, 1 to 4 centimeters long, with a distinctively woolly undersurface and sparsely hairy upper surface. The fruit is small, smooth, and measures 2 to 2.5 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Sand

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: 1100-2200 m

Bioregions: n WTR, SnBr, PR.

California counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, Orange, Imperial, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Monterey, El Dorado, Kern

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