Pronunciation: er-ee-OG-an-um de-FLEX-um
Common name: Flatcrown buckwheat
Family: Polygonaceae (Buckwheat)
Habitat: Sandy to gravelly washes and slopes to about
6000', creosote bush scrub to pinyon-juniper woodland,
Mojave and Colorado Deserts
Blooming period: May to October
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Eriogonum
2) deflexum
Two vars. (baratum and deflexum) in SoCal