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Chaparral buckwheat

Eriogonum dasyanthemum

Also called Chaparral Wild Buckwheat

Chaparral buckwheat
Photo: Steve Matson, CC BY 4.0

Chaparral buckwheat is a small, spindly annual wildflower from the buckwheat family, native to the Northern Coast Ranges of California. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, and it is best grown as a low-water native annual in full sun with excellent drainage.

Family
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly while seedlings establish, then let the soil dry out between rare waterings; overwatering is a common cause of failure.
Soil
Poor, sandy or gravelly, well-drained soil.
Temperature
Tolerates mild temperate conditions; hardy in mild winters, protect from prolonged frost.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
NW. California
Climate
temperate

About

Eriogonum dasyanthemum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name chaparral buckwheat. This plant is endemic to California where it is limited to the Northern Coast Ranges, but it is quite common in its native range.

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 dasyanthemum 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.

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