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Spotted buckwheat

Eriogonum maculatum

Also called Spotted Wild Buckwheat

Spotted buckwheat
Photo: (c) Steve Matson, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
W. U.S.A. to Mexico (Baja California)
Climate
temperate

About

Eriogonum maculatum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name spotted buckwheat. It is native to western North America from Washington to Baja California to Utah, where it can be found in a number of habitats, often in abundance.

Where it grows

Spotted buckwheat is native to the western United States and northwestern Mexico. In the northwestern US it grows in just Yakima County, Washington, but four counties in eastern Oregon and five counties in southwestern Idaho. In the southwestern US it grows in western Utah and Arizona, but is found throughout Nevada. In California it is mainly in southern California with only Lassen County recorded in the north. According to Plants of the World Online it is also native to New Mexico. In Mexico it is only found in the state of Baja California.

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 maculatum 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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