Eriogonum reniforme

Kidney-leaf wild buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Kidney-leaf wild buckwheat is a California native annual found in the southern Coast Ranges in sandy habitats at elevations below 1,700 meters. Flowering from February to August, this plant produces yellow to reddish flowers in delicate, curved inflorescences up to 35 centimeters long. Growing as a small annual reaching 10 to 40 centimeters tall with slender, mostly glabrous stems, it develops distinctive round basal leaves. Its leaves are approximately 5 to 25 millimeters wide, rounded with soft tomentose surfaces that are whitish or grayish underneath. The tiny elliptic fruits are less than 1 millimeter long, completing this diminutive and delicate wildflower's life cycle.

Habitat: Common. Sand

Bloom period: Feb-Aug

Elevation: < 1700 m

Bioregions: D

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Kern, Riverside, Mono, San Diego, Imperial, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles

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