Eriogonum ordii

Fort mohave wild buckwheat, Fort Mohave Wild Buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Fort mohave wild buckwheat is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada Foothills, Tehachapi, south Coast Ranges, and northern Western Transverse Ranges in clay habitats at elevations of 200 to 1,400 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces white to pale yellow flowers occasionally tinged with red, small and delicate with densely hairy perianth lobes. Growing with slender stems 30 to 70 centimeters tall, ranging from sparsely hairy to nearly smooth. Its primarily basal leaves measure 2 to 8 centimeters long and 1 to 3 centimeters wide, with a sparse tomentose or glabrous surface. The plant develops thread-like flower branches up to 50 centimeters wide with tiny involucres and delicate erect peduncles.

Habitat: Clay

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 200-1400 m

Bioregions: s SNF, Teh, SCoRI, n WTR.

California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, San Benito, Ventura, Imperial, Fresno, Santa Barbara, Merced, San Diego, Inyo

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