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Mount Diablo Buckwheat
Eriogonum truncatum
  
About Mount Diablo Buckwheat (Eriogonum truncatum) 0 Nurseries Carry This Plant Eriogonum truncatum, the Mount Diablo buckwheat, is a small pink wildflower, believed to have been extinct since 1936 until its rediscovery in 2005. The species is only known to live on Mount Diablo in Contra Costa County, northern California. Mt. Diablo buckwheat is an annual plant growing between 150-750 millimetres (5. 9 in-2 ft 5. 5 in) high. It blooms with several dozen pinkish flowers, having a maroon line down the center of each petal. The flower stalks branch upward in a wishbone pattern, with flowers blooming at the joint and ends of the wishbone. The plant, an annual wildflower which dies after flowering and which is found at just one site, is still considered critically threatened. In December 2007 the Working Group seeded additional plots near the wild site.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
0.49 - 2.5 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Cream, Pink, White, Purple

Wildlife Supported
 


 
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Landscaping Information
Common uses
Common uses
Butterfly Gardens, Bee Gardens

Natural Setting
Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 14.4" - 28.1", Summer Precipitation: 0.23" - 0.46", Coldest Month: 46.3" - 50.4", Hottest Month: 65.2" - 73.2", Humidity: 1.70" - 19.07", Elevation: 40" - 3652"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Mt. Diablo Buckwheat


Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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