Red-flowered Buckwheat
Eriogonum grande
Red-flowered buckwheat is a compact California island buckwheat with rose-pink pompom flowers over gray-green rosettes, a long-blooming, drought-hardy pollinator gem for sunny banks.
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Type
- shrub
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 1–2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry, moist
- Soil pH
- neutral
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- white, red, pink
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies
- Landscape uses
- border, container
- 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)
- Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat (Eriogonum arborescens)