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Eriogonum palmerianum
Also called Palmer's Wild Buckwheat
Palmer's buckwheat is a small annual wild herb of the buckwheat family, native to desert and sagebrush habitats in the southwestern and Great Basin United States. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it grows from seed each year in open, dry ground.
Eriogonum palmerianum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Palmer's buckwheat. It is native to the Southwestern region of the United States and Great Basin region, where it grows in many types of desert and sagebrush plateau habitat.
Palmer's buckwheat native in the southwestern United States. In California it grows in just the south and eastern areas, but is widespread in Nevada. In Idaho it is only recorded in Owyhee County in the southwestern corner of the state, but it is found in most of both Utah and Arizona. In Colorado it is native to just two western counties, Mesa and Montezuma and similarly just Hidalgo and Grant counties in the southwestern New Mexico.
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 palmerianum 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.
