Eriogonum thomasii

Thomas' wild buckwheat, Thomas' Wild Buckwheat

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Thomas' wild buckwheat is a California native annual herb found in the southern desert bioregion in sandy habitats at elevations of 70 to 1,200 meters. Flowering throughout the year, this plant produces yellow flowers that transition to white and rose, appearing in delicate thread-like clusters. Growing 5 to 30 centimeters tall with slender, mostly glabrous stems that have a few glandular hairs near the base, it develops a distinctive growth pattern. Its basal leaves are round to kidney-shaped, densely white-woolly on the undersides and sparsely hairy on the upper surfaces, measuring 0.5 to 2 centimeters across. The fruit is a small, generally elliptic structure approximately 0.8 to 1 millimeter long.

Habitat: Common. Sand

Bloom period: All year

Elevation: -70-1200 m

Bioregions: D

California counties: San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, Inyo, Kern, Tulare

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