Wild Buckwheat

Eriogonum tomentosum
Español: Ricino
Rarely grown but of good potential for a dry native wildflower garden.



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.

Tolerance

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Habitat

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

Did You Know?

  • Showy flowers
  • Attracts bees and other pollinators.  Does not attract many butterflies.