Botanical Name: Eriogonum fasciculatum ssp. fasciculatum
Common Name: California buckwheat
Type of Plant: dicot: shrub
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape a low mounding-habit plant, with many slender, erect to nearly prostrate stems; forms a loose open canopy with age
Height 1' - 3' (5')
Spread equal or more
Growth Rate slow-moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun required; grows poorly in shade
Soil tolerates most except poorly drained adobe soils
Hardiness hardy (zones 8,9,14-24); thrives in warm sites below 2000ft
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnate, whorled in tiny branchlets, linear-narrowly elliptic; 1/2" - 3/4" long, green above, silver-gray beneath
Flowers pinkish-white, tiny (1/4" across), crowded at the end of the branches, in dense compound umbels on 3"-6" stalks; spring-summer, intermittent throughout the year
Fruit an achene; tiny, very abundant
 
Propagation:
seed (good for hydroseed mixes)
 
Usage:
an excellent quick filler or facer, for its loose open form and fine textured foliage; one of the best shrubs for erosion control on slopes; blooms nearly all year; is a short-lived plant
 
Landscape Care:
Watering an occasional deep soak; becomes very drought-tolerant after established
Fertilizing none required
Pruning head back occasionally to encourage a denser form
Pests/Diseases relatively free
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Central and Southern California
Family: Polygonaceae

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