Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
First collected in the 90s or early 2000s, this is the notorious "Bristol Mountains Buckwheat" that nobody has bothered to describe since it first becoming known in Southern California Botany & Eriogonum-obsessed circles 20 years ago. I first saw it in 2017/2018 while here looking for the disjunct population of Salvia funerea. It was flowering then and I haven't seen it flowering since. Matt Berger @sheriff_woody_pct informed me he stopped here two days ago and saw it flowering, only 18 individuals near the top of this ridge, on a North-facing slope. The slope i first discovered this species on is a quarter mile South, so there are likely more individuals up right now. It is exceptionally dry here now, even for the Mojave (the Ferocactus are dying). Growing with Encelia farinosa, Salvia funerea, Tidestromia, Aristida sp.
Perennial herb with ovate, pubescent basal leaves & waxy, glaucous blue stems that grow in a divericating, "cage-like" branching structure. Flowers "ketchup and mustard", aging to cream colored. Anthers red. Only occurs on limestone.
First collected in the 90s or early 2000s, this is the notorious "Bristol Mountains Buckwheat" that nobody has bothered to describe since it first becoming known in Southern California Botany & Eriogonum-obsessed circles 20 years ago. I first saw it in 2017/2018 while here looking for the disjunct population of Salvia funerea. It was flowering then and I haven't seen it flowering since. Matt Berger @sheriff_woody_pct informed me he stopped here two days ago and saw it flowering, only 18 individuals near the top of this ridge, on a North-facing slope. The slope i first discovered this species on is a quarter mile South, so there are likely more individuals up right now. It is exceptionally dry here now, even for the Mojave (the Ferocactus are dying). Growing with Encelia farinosa, Salvia funerea, Tidestromia, Aristida sp.
Perennial herb with ovate, pubescent basal leaves & waxy, glaucous blue stems that grow in a divericating, "cage-like" branching structure. Flowers "ketchup and mustard", aging to cream colored. Anthers red. Only occurs on limestone.
