Index / Search / Eriogonum effusum
§1 Plant
Eriogonum effusum Nutt.
vernacular spreading buckwheat — species · Polygonaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Shrub, Subshrub
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polygonaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Eriogonum
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 51 counties across 6 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 51 counties across 6 states/territories.
Colorado view state ↗ 27 N ▾
- Adams 08001
- Alamosa 08003
- Bent 08011
- Boulder 08013
- Chaffee 08015
- Cheyenne 08017
- Custer 08027
- Denver 08031
- Douglas 08035
- El Paso 08041
- Elbert 08039
- Fremont 08043
- Huerfano 08055
- Jefferson 08059
- Kiowa 08061
- Kit Carson 08063
- Larimer 08069
- Las Animas 08071
- Lincoln 08073
- Logan 08075
- Morgan 08087
- Otero 08089
- Saguache 08109
- San Juan 08111
- Summit 08117
- Washington 08121
- Weld 08123
Nebraska view state ↗ 7 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 6 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Utah view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/EREF ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2889581 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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