Shrub Steppe - Eastern Washington State

Wild buckwheat pictures

Eastern Washington

 

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Related Information
Genus Eriogonum photos and WA distribution maps - UW Herbarium
Wild Buckwheat - Pacific Rim Native Plant Nursery

Buckwheats are host plant for:
Mormon Metalmark Butterfly
Blue Copper Butterfly
Western Green Hairstreak
Sheridan's Green Hairstreak
Western Square-spotted blue
Acmon Blue Butterfly
Rocky Mountain Dotted Blue
Pacific Dotted Blue

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Washington Native Plant Society

Related Books
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary
Wildflowers of the Inland Northwest
Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia and the Inland Northwest
Northwest Penstemons: 80 Species in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

 

Snow Buckwheat pictures and information - Eriogonum niveum
Snow buckwheat - Eriogonum niveum

 

Parsnip-flowered Buckwheat - Eriogonum Heracleoides
Parsnip-flowered buckwheat - Eriogonum heracleoides

 

Tall wooly buckwheat - Eriogonum elatum
Tall wooly buckwheat - Eriogonum elatum

 

Cushion buckwheat - Eriogonum Ovalifolium
Cushion buckwheat - Eriogonum ovalifolium

 

Thymeleaf buckwheat picture - Eriogonum thymoides
Thymeleaf buckwheat - Eriogonum thymoides

 

Douglas buckwheat - Eriogonum douglasii
Douglas buckwheat - Eriogonum douglasii

 

Rock buckwheat - Eriogonum sphaerocephalum
Rock buckwheat - Eriogonum sphaerocephalum

 

Arrowleaf buckwheat - Eriogonum compositum
Arrowleaf buckwheat - Eriogonum compositum

 

Eriogonum is derived from the Greek words erion for "wool," and gonu for "joint or knee" because some species of Eriogonum have hairy or wooly joints.



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