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This Channel Island native is perhaps the largest of California’s many buckwheat species, growing as tall as eight feet. While the form varies in the wild, garden-grown plants generally are rounded to upright. The foliage is powdery green and – like most buckwheats – looks great all year with little…

California’s buckwheat species have provided many exceptional plants for the home garden. Their foliage is attractive, they flower generously, and generally look great throughout the year with little water. Red flowered buckwheat adds to these characteristics a red flower – relatively rare among California’s native plants. This Channel Island endemic…

Coast buckwheat is commonly found on the immediate coast from San Luis Obispo County north into Oregon and Washington. The gray-green leaves grow in a dense, spreading mound. In mid-spring the spherical bunches of flowers rise above the plant. The flowers are usually creamy white with a pink blush, but…

Naked buckwheat is so named for the slender bare stems that rise above the foliage in late spring and summer bearing multiple spherical flower clusters. The foliage tends to be rather prostrate in Santa Clara County populations, though it may be more upright and rounded in other populations of this…

Naked buckwheat is so named for the slender bare stems that rise above the foliage in late spring and summer bearing multiple spherical flower clusters. The foliage tends to be rather prostrate in Santa Clara County populations, though it may be more upright and rounded in other populations of this…

Seacliff buckwheat is native to coastal regions from Monterey County south. It is a short, mounding species with dense, rounded, leaves about the size of a nickel. These are blue-green on the upper surface, white below. The spherical flower clusters are held over the foliage on short stocks. The flowers…

This selection is well-established in the nursery trade but has been hard to find for several years. Eriogonum umbellatum grows in many parts of California and beyond. About 25 varieties occur in California. The polyanthum variety is prominent in the Sierra Nevada and mountainous regions of Northern California. The ‘Shasta…