Pineland buckwheat is an erect glabrous branched annual with slender stems and flower clusters that are sessile and laterally positioned on the stems.  The leaves are basal, round to reniform, and white wooly (especially beneath) with wavy or crisped margins.  The individual flowers are white to pale pink, glabrous and less than 1/8" long.  This buckwheat flowers from June to September and may be found in ± dry areas of granitic sands to an elevation of perhaps 8000' in the mountains from Ventura Co. south to San Diego Co.  The Jepson Manual lists it as uncommon.  These pic-
tures were taken in the Fish Creek area of the San Bernardino Mts.  Note: There are two very similar, closely-related taxa with mostly shared characteristics, E. molestum and E. davidsonii, listed in the Jepson Manual. Munz's Flora of Southern Califor-
nia included E. molestum as a synonym of E. davidsonii.  See Eriogonum david-
sonii for a brief discussion of what I have observed to be differences between the two species, and photographs that I think show how dissimilar they are.

Click here for Latin name derivations: 1) Eriogonum 2) molestum.
Pronunciation: er-ee-OG-an-um mo-LES-tum.
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