Plant Wiki

The open plant encyclopedia

Know any plant.
Grow it well.

Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.

  • 13,000+plants with full pages
  • 365,000+plant species worldwide
  • 220+countries covered

Common in

See all

The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.

What do you want to do?

Popular plants

Browse all plants

See them in 3D

All plants in 3D

Browse plants

Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.

Plant Wiki › Browse plants

Douglas' buckwheat

Eriogonum douglasii

Douglas' buckwheat
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0

Douglas' buckwheat is a low, mat-forming perennial wildflower from dry western North America, valued for its woolly leaves and small cream to rose-pink flower heads. The key to growing it is full sun and very sharp drainage, since it naturally grows on thin, rocky soils.

Family
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry fully between waterings; avoid wet roots.
Soil
Lean, gritty, well-drained soil or rocky mix; poor soil is preferred.
Temperature
Hardy to cold winters in its native range; protect from prolonged wet cold.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Washington to Oregon
Climate
temperate

About

Eriogonum douglasii is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Douglas' buckwheat. It is native to the western United States, including the Pacific Northwest and part of the Great Basin.

Where it grows

Eriogonum douglasii is native to Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and northern California in dry areas at moderate elevations. It grows in grassland, sagebrush, and open forest habitat, often on thin rocky soils.

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 douglasii 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.

Credits & terms

Identify a plant

Point at a leaf or flower and snap. One plant in frame works best.

Your photo
Starting camera…