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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Knotweed Family
  7. Wild Buckwheats
  8. Buckwheat
  9. Sand Buckwheat

species 124 observations

Sand Buckwheat

Eriogonum leptocladon

Status
native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

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118 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Mormon Metalmark, Pallid Blue, Sheridan's Hairstreak, Gray Hairstreak 14
  • Plant eaters Animals that feed on it Sphex lucae, Western Yellowjacket, Red-shouldered Leaf Beetle, Yellow-legged Mud-dauber Wasp 10
  • Flower visitors Pollinators and other flower visitors Western Evening Primrose Sweat Bee, Anthophora albata, Melissodes bicoloratus, Great Golden Digger Wasp 94

Children

  • Dune Buckwheat
  • Sand Buckwheat
  • Eastwood's Sand Buckwheat

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Shrubs
Plant type
Perennial Shrub

From USDA PLANTS.

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