Eriogonum arborescens - Santa Cruz Island buckwheat

Santa Cruz Island buckwheat (Eriogonum arborescens) is a gray-leaved shrub to three feet tall, its pink flowers persisting from summer to winter.¹ It grows 0.7-1 m tall and 1-1.5 m wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹

Type

• Shrub

Functions

• Wildlife habitat¹
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Fire resistance²

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	0.7-1
Diameter (m)	1-1.5

Footnotes

1. Eriogonum arborescens, Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩