Plant Database
Red Buckwheat
Eriogonum grande rubescens
Eriogonum grande var. rubescens is a stunning, low-growing evergreen shrub prized for its profuse, ruby-pink to rosy-red flower clusters and attractive, silvery-gray, woolly foliage. Native to California's Channel Islands (particularly San Miguel Island), this compact, mounding plant forms a low, spreading clump of spoon-shaped, gray-green leaves covered in fine, woolly hairs. From late spring through summer, it produces upright, slender stems bearing small, globe-shaped clusters of tiny, star-shaped flowers that emerge a vibrant ruby-pink, fade to soft pink, and finally mature to a rusty, pale pink, creating a long-lasting, multi-toned display that attracts a wide range of native bees, butterflies, and other pollinators, including the endangered El Segundo blue butterfly. Exceptionally drought-tolerant, heat-tolerant, salt-tolerant, and deer-resistant, it is an outstanding choice for native plant gardens, rock gardens, coastal plantings, slopes, containers, and xeriscape landscapes.