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

species 2,983 observations

Longleaf Buckwheat

Eriogonum longifolium

Status
maybe native
Traits
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

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88 native animals
supported in the US
  • Caterpillars Moths and butterflies raised on it Gray Hairstreak, Lupine Blue, White-lined Sphinx, Drasteria howlandii 5
  • 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 Four-toothed Mason Wasp, Phidippus texanus, Florida Pebble Bee, Cyclops Blood Bee 73

Range

United States

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

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

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