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Eriogonum elongatum
Also called Long Stem Wild Buckwheat
Longstem buckwheat is a perennial wild herb of coastal southern California and Baja California, typically 0.6 to 1.2 m tall. It does best in full sun with sharp drainage, and it tolerates a wide range of soil pH and even serpentine soils.
Eriogonum elongatum, commonly known as longstem buckwheat or wand buckwheat, is a species of wild buckwheat native to coastal southern and Baja California.
Eriogonum elongatum primarily grows in coastal sage scrub, foothill woodland, and chaparral ecosystems in and around the Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular Ranges of California from 60–1,900 metres (200–6,230 feet) above sea level. As with many other Eriogonum species, Eriogonum elongatum is a bodenvag species, tolerant of a relatively wide pH range of 5–8.2, and is tolerant of serpentinite soils that are common throughout its range, though it is not endemic to serpentine-derived soils.
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 elongatum 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.
