ON THIS PLANT
Eriogonum nidularium is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name birdnest buckwheat. It is native to the sandy flats and desert dry washes of the Mojave Desert and Great Basin in the western United States, where it is common and abundant. This is a distinctive annual herb producing a thin, multibranched stem which curves in on itself to form a rounded, tangled mass.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Life Cycle
- Perennial
- Genus
- Eriogonum
- Family
- Polygonaceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Bird's-nest wild buckwheat en Birdnest buckwheat
