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Eriogonum gracillimum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name rose and white buckwheat. It is endemic to California but is common and widespread in many areas there. This is a spindly annual herb reaching anywhere from 5 to 50 centimeters in height. Most of the leaves are basal with a few scattered on the thin branched stem and are generally one to four centimeters long and somewhat woolly, with edges rolled under. Along the thread-thin branches of the stem appear small clusters of flowers which hang on short stalks in bell-shaped involucres. The two-millimeter-wide flowers are bright rose and white in color.
Annual herb
2 - 19 in Tall
Cream, Pink, White
Low, Very Low
Coastal Sage Scrub, Foothill Woodland, Joshua Tree Woodland, Valley Grassland
Butterflies and moths supported
1 confirmed and 39 likely
Acmon Blue
Icaricia acmon
Sonoran Metalmark
Apodemia mejicanus
Mormon Metalmark
Apodemia mormo
Behr's Metalmark
Apodemia virgulti