Life … Plants Vascular Plants Dicots Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies Knotweed Family Wild Buckwheats Heermann's Buckwheat Heermann's Great Basin Wild Buckwheat variety Heermann's Great Basin Wild Buckwheat Eriogonum heermannii humilius Key traits Layer Shrubs Plant type Perennial Shrub From USDA PLANTS. Close