One of our most diminutive buckwheats, featuring intensely yellow flowers in charming pom-poms held just above tight mats of deep green, rounded leaves. The foliage only reaches about 4 inches tall and about a foot wide, making this variety a great choice for containers, rock gardens, and small spaces. While the same species as our Californian sulphur buckwheats, this form is found on gravelly ridges in the Great Basin and the Rocky Mountains. Does well in local gardens with decent drainage in full sun to very light shade. A great pollinator plant when in bloom in spring and summer.
Eriogonum umbellatum var. porteri
Porter's sulphur buckwheat
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- Average Height: 0.25 - 0.5 ft
- Average Width: 0.5 - 1 ft
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