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§1 Plant
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench
vernacular buckwheat — species · Polygonaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polygonaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Fagopyrum
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 314 counties across 26 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 40 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 365 min.
- Precipitation
- 15–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Severe
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 20,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 314 counties across 26 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 35 I ▾
- Adams 17001
- Alexander 17003
- Boone 17007
- Calhoun 17013
- Champaign 17019
- Cook 17031
- Cumberland 17035
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Fayette 17051
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Jackson 17077
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- LaSalle 17099
- Lee 17103
- Macoupin 17117
- Mason 17125
- McHenry 17111
- Moultrie 17139
- Peoria 17143
- Perry 17145
- Pike 17149
- Randolph 17157
- Sangamon 17167
- St. Clair 17163
- Stark 17175
- Tazewell 17179
- Union 17181
- Wabash 17185
- Will 17197
- Woodford 17203
Indiana view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Allegan 26005
- Antrim 26009
- Barry 26015
- Benzie 26019
- Berrien 26021
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Clinton 26037
- Emmet 26047
- Gogebic 26053
- Gratiot 26057
- Hillsdale 26059
- Houghton 26061
- Ingham 26065
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Leelanau 26089
- Macomb 26099
- Midland 26111
- Oakland 26125
- Otsego 26137
- Schoolcraft 26153
- Shiawassee 26155
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Van Buren 26159
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Minnesota view state ↗ 19 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Schuyler 36097
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Wyoming 36121
North Carolina view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 36 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Clinton 42035
- Crawford 42039
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Tioga 42117
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 20 I ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Charlotte 51037
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Frederick 51069
- Giles 51071
- Gloucester 51073
- Henrico 51087
- James City 51095
- Lunenburg 51111
- New Kent 51127
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Orange 51137
- Pittsylvania 51143
- Prince Edward 51147
- Rockingham 51165
- Scott 51169
- Smyth 51173
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Wise 51195
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FAES2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2889373 ↗Record version
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