Eriogonum nudum var. deductum

Reduced wild buckwheat, Reduced Wild Buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Reduced wild buckwheat is a California native perennial found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Great Basin in sandy or gravelly habitats at elevations of 1,500 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces delicate white flowers in open clusters 5 to 15 centimeters wide. Growing with slender stems 20 to 50 centimeters tall that are smooth and glabrous, it forms low spreading clusters. Its basal leaves are small, one to two centimeters long, with dense white woolly undersides and sparse hairs on the upper surface. The plant develops compact, branching flower clusters with smooth, glabrous stems and small white flowers.

Habitat: Common. Sand or gravel

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: (1100)1500-3000 m

Bioregions: SNH, GB

California counties: El Dorado, Mono, Tuolumne, Fresno, Tulare, Placer, Mariposa, Alpine, Inyo, Nevada, Plumas, Lassen, Madera, Sierra, Butte, Amador, Calaveras, Kern, Siskiyou, Lake, Santa Barbara

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