California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
Family 3
Polygonaceae
Description 4
California buckwheat is a native evergreen shrub about 12 to 39 inches high and 28 to 51 inches wide. Branches are numerous, slender and flexible. Leaves are oval, 1.5 to 3.8 inches long and less than half an inch wide, smooth or fuzzy above and fuzzy beneath. Flowers are white or pink.
Community 3
Coastal Sage Scrub, Valley Grassland, Sagebrush Scrub, Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Creosote Bush Scrub
Flowering 3
Apr- Sept
Ethnobotany 3
• Coahuilla Drug (Analgesic, Eye Medicine, Gastrointestinal Aid) Barrows, David Prescott 1967 The Ethno-Botany of the Coahuilla Indians of Southern California. Banning CA. Malki Museum Press. Originally Published 1900 (p. 78)
• Costanoan Drug (Urinary Aid) Bocek, Barbara R. 1984 Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington. Economic Botany 38(2):240-255 (p. 11)
• Diegueno Drug (Pediatric Aid, Emetic, Antidiarrheal). Hedges, Ken 1986 Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany. San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20 (p. 21)\
Diegueno Drug (Heart Medicine)Hinton, Leanne 1975 Notes on La Huerta Diegueno Ethnobotany. Journal of California Anthropology 2:214-222 (p. 216)
• Tubatulabal Drug (Gastrointestinal Aid, Pediatric Aid, Antidiarrheal) Voegelin, Ermine W. 1938 Tubatulabal Ethnography. Anthropological Records 2(1):1-84 (p. 59)
• Kawaiisu (Tools, Container liner) Zigmond, Maurice L. 1981 Kawaiisu Ethnobotany. Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press (p. 29)
Garden Location 3
H, U
Associated Species 3
Members of E. fasciculatum are food plants for several butterflies, notably the Bernardino dotted-blue (Euphilotes bernardino), lupine blue (Plebeius lupini), Mormon metalmark (Apodemia mormo), and Behr's metalmark (A. virgulti). Probably the butterfly most commonly seen with the species is the nut-brown hairstreak (Satyrium saepium), which frequents plants in full flower.
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