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Thurber's buckwheat

Eriogonum thurberi

Also called Thurber's Wild Buckwheat

Thurber's buckwheat
Photo: Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0

Thurber's buckwheat (Eriogonum thurberi) is a thin wild annual of the buckwheat family from the deserts of the US Southwest and northwest Mexico, growing up to 40 cm with small white to pink flowers. It is grown mainly for native and dry-garden plantings and is easiest to establish by sowing seed in autumn or early spring.

Family
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly while seedlings establish, then let the soil dry out between rare waterings.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, well-drained soil; tolerates poor, rocky ground.
Temperature
Tolerates hot desert summers and mild winters; protect from hard frost.
How easy
Easy
Native range
S. California to SW. New Mexico and NW. Mexico
Climate
subtropical

About

Eriogonum thomasii is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Thurber's buckwheat. It is native to the desert southwest of North America in Arizona, California, New Mexico and three desert states of Mexico, where it is common to abundant in many areas.

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 thurberi 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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