species 32,694 observations
Sulfur Buckwheat
Eriogonum umbellatum
Field notes
Supports All
169
native animals
supported in the US
supported in the US
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Caterpillars
Moths and butterflies raised on it
Ancilla Blue, Square-spotted Blue, Blue Copper, Mormon Metalmark
21
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Specialist bees
Bees whose young are raised on the pollen of it
Nevada Miner Bee, Chamise Evening Bee
2
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Hosted animals
Gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it
Anambodera gemina, Chrysobothris cyanella
2
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Plant eaters
Animals that feed on it
Sphex lucae, Western Yellowjacket, Hemipenthes inops, Red-shouldered Leaf Beetle
17
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Flower visitors
Pollinators and other flower visitors
Gorgon Copper, Judolia instabilis, Acmon Blue, Great Golden Digger Wasp
127
Children
- Panamint Sulphur Flower
- Warner Mountains Buckwheat
- One-eyed Sulphur Flower
- Bicolor Sulphur Flower
- Golden Sulphur Flower
- Donner Pass Buckwheat
- Modoc Sulphur Flower
- Munz's Sulphur Flower
- Porter's Sulphur Flower
- Ferris' Sulphur Flower
- Mount Eddy Buckwheat
- Santa Clara Sulphur Flower
- Juniper Sulphur-flowered Buckwheat
- Emperor's Sulphur Flower
- Sierra Nevada Sulphur Flower
- Nevada Sulphur Flower
- Alpine Sulphur-flowered Buckwheat
- Starry Sulphur Flower
- Yellowstone Sulphur Flower
- Coville's Sulphur Flower
- Sherwin Grade Sulphur Flower
- Goodman's Sulphur Flower
- Beautiful Sulphur Flower
- Spring Sulfurflower
Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided
Key traits
- Layer
- Herbaceous plants
- Light
- Full sun
- Moisture
- Well drained
- Water use
- Low
- Soil pH
- Neutral
- Drought tolerant
- Yes
- Habit
- Horizontal Prostrate Spreading
- Plant type
- Herbaceous perennial
From NC State Extension and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.