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Eriogonum arborescens
Also called Island Buckwheat, Santa Cruz Island Wild Buckwheat
Santa Cruz Island buckwheat is a woody, sprawling native shrub of California's northern Channel Islands, grown mainly for its pale pink flowers and value to butterflies and native bees. It needs full sun and very good drainage, and once established it tolerates drought well.
Eriogonum arborescens is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Santa Cruz Island buckwheat.
This shrub is endemic to the northern Channel Islands of California except San Miguel Island.
This species, and most buckwheats (Eriogonum sp.), are of special value to butterflies and native bees.
Abert's buckwheat · Coastal buckwheat · Eastern Mojave buckwheat · St. Catherine's lace · Seaside buckwheat · Snow Mountain buckwheat · Naked buckwheat · Hoary buckwheat · Mt. Diablo buckwheat · Buckwheat
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriogonum arborescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
