About Eriogonum davidsonii Greene
Eriogonum davidsonii is a species of wild buckwheat commonly called Davidson's buckwheat. This plant is native to the southwestern United States and northern Baja California. It grows in sandy or gravelly soils, across mixed grassland, saltbush, chaparral, and sagebrush communities, as well as oak and montane conifer woodland. It is a spindly annual herb that reaches up to 40 centimeters in height. Its fuzzy leaves are basal, round, up to two centimeters wide, and have wavy or wrinkly fuzzy margins. The plant varies in appearance, but is typically erect, with thin, naked, neatly branching stems that hold clusters of tiny flowers at widely spaced nodes. Each flower is around 2 millimeters wide, bell-shaped, and can be white, pink, or red. Its flowering period runs from May to September.
