SULFURFLOWER BUCKWHEAT
Eriogonum umbellatum
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Buckwheat Family
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This pretty, evergreen cushion plant is widely distributed and common at middle to high elevations throughout our region. It is quite versatile in a garden setting and is very easy to grow. It deserves a place in any native garden. One nice feature of this plant is the mound of shiny green leaves that turn red in winter. The plant sends up its slender, branched flowering stalks in early to midsummer, and the show lasts for weeks, with the balls of bright sulfur-yellow blossoms slowly turning red and then rust-colored. This plant does best in a lean, well-drained soil in full sun. It can perform well as an informal ground cover or in perennial beds with plants like little beebalm, showy sandwort, Lewis flax, and other buckwheats. Sulfurflower buckwheat attracts a variety of beautiful and interesting native insect pollinators and is an excellent plant for a butterfly garden.
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 Sulfurflower Buckwheat habit |
 Sulfurflower Buckwheat flowers |
 Sulfurflower Buckwheat in late summer |
Other names: Sulfurflower, Sulfur Buckwheat
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