Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Eriogonum gilmanii is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Gilman's buckwheat. This plant is endemic to Inyo County, California, where it is known only from the desert mountain slopes of the Cottonwood, Last Chance, and Panamint Ranges. This is a flat mat-forming, woody perennial herb which grows in patches under 20 centimeters wide on rocky soils. Its tiny fleshy leaves, each under half a centimeter wide, are covered in a dense hairy white wool. The plant blooms in showy erect heads of small, inflated flowers, each a few millimeters wide and yellowish or orange with red stripes.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

0.4 - 0.8 in Tall

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Color

Cream, Yellow, Red, White, Orange

Water

Low, Very Low

Bees
Butterflies

Pollinators supported

0 confirmed and 173 likely

  • Likely

  • Confirmed

Sleepy Orange

Abaeis nicippe

Angelic Sweat Bee

Agapostemon angelicus

Wide-legged Sweat Bee

Agapostemon femoratus

Orange-bellied Sweat Bee

Agapostemon melliventris