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§1 Plant

Eriogonum microthecum Nutt. var. simpsonii (Benth.) Reveal

vernacular Simpson's buckwheat — variety · Polygonaceae


USDA
ERMIS2
GBIF
8225340 syn.
Rank
variety
Simpson's buckwheat (Eriogonum microthecum var. simpsonii)
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

· 41 counties across 6 states/territories
Legend Native · 41 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 41 counties across 6 states/territories.


§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/ERMIS2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/8225340 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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