Eriogonum palmerianum

Palmer's wild buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Palmer's wild buckwheat is a California native annual found in the southeastern desert and desert mountain regions in sandy or gravelly habitats at elevations of 600 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from March to October, this plant produces white to pink or pale yellow flowers that age to pink or red, with delicate fan-shaped outer lobes. Growing with hairy stems 5 to 30 centimeters tall, it develops distinctive low-spreading branches. Its basal leaves are tomentose on the undersides, measuring 0.5 to 2 centimeters long, with a slightly less hairy upper surface. The plant forms compact inflorescences 5 to 25 centimeters wide with densely clustered flower clusters.

Habitat: Common. Sand or gravel

Bloom period: Mar-Oct

Elevation: (300)600-2300 m

Bioregions: SNE, D

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside, Inyo, Mono, Los Angeles, Plumas

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