FNPS Plant Database

Eriogonum tomentosum

wild buckwheat

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Nomenclature

Common Name:

wild buckwheat

Synonym(s):

Genus species:

Eriogonum tomentosum

Family:

Polygonaceae

Plant Specifics

Form:

flower

Size:

1.5-3 ft tall by 0.5 ft wide

Life Span:

Long-lived perennial

Flower Color:

white

Fruit Color:

NA

Phenology:

winter dormant

Noted For:

Showy Flowers

Landscaping

Recommended Uses:

Wildflower garden. When not flowering, the plant is a low-growing rosette of leaves that are white on the bottom. It flowers in the fall.

Considerations:

Availability:

Seed

Propagation:

Seed.

Light:

Full Sun

Moisture Tolerance:

Always Flooded------------------------------------------------Extremely Dry

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Somewhat moist, no flooding ---to--- Very long very dry periods

Salt Water Flooding Tolerance:

Unknown

Salt Spray/Salty Soil Tolerance:

Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Soil or Other Substrate:

Sand

Soil pH:

Suitable to Grow In:

USDA zones are based on the average annual extreme minimum winter temperature.



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Ecology

Wildlife:

Pollinators

Attracts bees and other pollinators.  Does not attract many butterflies.

Native Habitats:

Sandhill, scrubby sandhill, disturbed sandhill, xeric roadsides in areas of sandhill soils.

Natural Range in Florida:

Comments:

Ethnobotany:

General Comments:

Rarely grown but of good potential for a dry native wildflower garden.

Citations:

Huegel, Craig, N.  2012.  Native wildflowers and other ground covers for Florida landscapes. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL.



Wunderlin, R. P., B. F. Hansen, A. R. Franck, and F. B. Essig. 2021. Atlas of Florida Plants (http://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu/).  Institute for Systematic Botany, University of South Florida, Tampa.

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