Carried by 1 nurseries
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Eriogonum kennedyi is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Kennedy's buckwheat. It is endemic to California, where it can be found in the Transverse Ranges, the Sierra Nevada foothills, and in the case of one variety, the high Sierra Nevada and far western Great Basin. It grows in dry habitat in sand or gravel. This is a perennial herb forming a small cushiony mat covered in oval leaves up to about centimeter long. The greenish leaves are coated in woolly fibers in shades of brown to pink or white. The flower cluster arises on an erect scape, or stem, bearing a head of small flowers which are white to pink with a darker midrib.
Perennial herb
2 - 6 in Tall
Cream, Pink, White, Brown
Summer, Fall
Full Sun
Low, Very Low
Fast
For propagating by seed: No treatment.
Dry gravel
Alpine Fell-Fields, Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Sagebrush Scrub, Yellow Pine Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
4 confirmed and 34 likely
Mormon Metalmark
Apodemia mormo
Bauer's Dotted-Blue
Euphilotes baueri
Mojave Dotted-blue
Euphilotes mojave
Veined Blue
Icaricia neurona