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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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Related books
Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Intermountain Flora Series
Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia and the Inland Northwest
Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual
Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary
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

Tall wooly buckwheat - Eriogonum elatum

Cushion buckwheat - Eriogonum ovalifolium

Thymeleaf buckwheat picture - Eriogonum thymoides
Thymeleaf buckwheat - Eriogonum thymoides

Douglas buckwheat - Eriogonum douglasii

Rock buckwheat - Eriogonum sphaerocephalum

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.