Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Eriogonum davidsonii is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Davidson's buckwheat. This plant is native to the southwestern United States and northern Baja California, where it grows in sandy or gravelly soils in a variety of habitats. It is a spindly annual herb growing up to 40 centimeters in height. The fuzzy leaves are located at the base of the plant and are one or two centimeters wide and round with wavy or wrinkly margins. It is variable in appearance, but is generally erect with thin, naked, neatly branching stems bearing clusters of tiny flowers at widely-spaced nodes. Each flower is about 2 millimeters wide, bell-shaped, and usually pink.

Plant type

Annual herb

Size

4 - 16 in Tall

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Color

Cream, Pink, White

Flowering season

Summer, Fall

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Low, Very Low

Ease of care

Moderate

Sunset Zones

1, 2, 3, 7*, 8, 9, 10, 14*, 15*, 16*, 17*, 18*, 19*, 20*, 21*, 22*, 23*, 24*

Site type

Volcanic or granitic soils

Plant communities

Chaparral, Joshua Tree Woodland, Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Yellow Pine Forest

Bees
Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

1 confirmed and 46 likely

Confirmed Likely

Dotted Blue

Euphilotes enoptes

Sonoran Metalmark

Apodemia mejicanus

Mormon Metalmark

Apodemia mormo

Behr's Metalmark

Apodemia virgulti