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Nevada City buckwheat

Eriogonum prattenianum

Nevada City buckwheat
Photo: Stickpen, CC0

Nevada City buckwheat is a small, woolly-leaved native shrub from the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, grown for its yellow flower clusters. It needs sharp drainage and sun, and dislikes wet roots.

Family
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established and let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Fast-draining, gritty or sandy soil; avoid heavy clay.
Temperature
Hardy in cool-temperate to mild climates; protect from prolonged frost and waterlogging in winter.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
C. California
Climate
temperate

About

Eriogonum prattenianum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Nevada City buckwheat.

Where it grows

Eriogonum prattenianum is endemic to California, where it can be found in many scattered disjunct populations in the Sierra Nevada and its foothills.

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 prattenianum 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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