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Crosby's buckwheat

Eriogonum crosbyae

Also called Crosby's Wild Buckwheat, Graceful Buckwheat, Hidden Buckwheat, Muhlick's Buckwheat, Welsh's Buckwheat

Crosby's buckwheat
Photo: Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0
Family
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
NW. U.S.A. to Nevada
Climate
temperate

About

Eriogonum crosbyae is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Crosby's buckwheat. It is native to southcentral Oregon and northwestern Nevada in the United States. Some treatments include plants in Montana and Idaho as members of this species. This plant was first discovered in the Guano Valley in Lake County, Oregon, in 1978 by Bureau of Land Management botanist Virginia Crosby, and it was named for her in 1981.

This perennial herb forms mats of stems from a branching caudex. It is hairless to hairy to woolly in texture and sometimes glandular, and it is greenish or grayish in color. The woolly leaves are up to 3 centimeters long. The inflorescence is a headlike cluster of yellow or cream flowers.

Other Eriogonum plants

Abert's buckwheat · Winged buckwheat · Shale barren buckwheat · Trinity buckwheat · Mono buckwheat · Anglestem buckwheat · San Jacinto buckwheat · Ione buckwheat · Santa Cruz Island buckwheat · Clay buckwheat · Sulphur Hot Springs buckwheat · Bailey's buckwheat

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriogonum crosbyae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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