Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat
Eriogonum arborescens
Santa Cruz Island buckwheat is a mounding evergreen shrub topped for months with flat pink-and-cream flower clusters that pollinators swarm, drying to rust. A superb, drought-proof butterfly plant.
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 2–4 ft
- Spacing
- 3–5 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June, July, August, September
- Bloom colors
- pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- foundation
- Native states
- CA
Related native plants
More Eriogonum species
- California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum)
- Sulphur Buckwheat (Eriogonum umbellatum)
- Desert Trumpet (Eriogonum inflatum)
- Redroot Buckwheat (Eriogonum racemosum)
- St. Catherine's Lace (Eriogonum giganteum)
- Red-flowered Buckwheat (Eriogonum grande)