Index / Search / Eriogonum microthecum var. laxiflorum

§1 Plant

Eriogonum microthecum Nutt. var. laxiflorum Hook.

vernacular slender buckwheat — variety · Polygonaceae


USDA
ERMIL2
GBIF
6391792
Rank
variety
slender buckwheat (Eriogonum microthecum var. laxiflorum)
Platephotograph · Patrick SilbeyCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Shrub, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Polygonaceae Juss.
Genus
Eriogonum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 94 counties across 8 states/territories
Legend Native · 94 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§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 94 counties across 8 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 4 N
California view state ↗ 8 N
Idaho view state ↗ 22 N
Nevada view state ↗ 15 N
Oregon view state ↗ 11 N
Utah view state ↗ 21 N
Washington view state ↗ 9 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 4 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/ERMIL2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/6391792 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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