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Eriogonum crosbyae is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Crosby's buckwheat. It is native to southcentral Oregon and northwestern Nevada in the United States. [ 1 ] Some treatments include plants in Montana and Idaho as members of this species. [ 2 ]
Buckwheat was one of the earliest crops introduced by Europeans to North America. Dispersal around the globe was complete by 2006, when a variety developed in Canada was widely planted in China. In India, buckwheat flour is known as kuttu ka atta and has long been culturally associated with many festivals like Shivratri, Navaratri and ...
This buckwheat is an annual herb varying in form from prostrate to erect, 40 centimeters long including inflorescence. [2] The plant is mostly naked, with sparse linear leaves around the base of the stem and at points along the stem.
Despite sharing the common name "buckwheat", Eriogonum is part of a different genus than the cultivated European buckwheat and than other plant species also called wild buckwheat. In addition to the widespread common species, approximately a third of the species in the genus are rare, endangered, or threatened.
A woman grinding kasha, an 18th-century drawing by J.-P. Norblin. In Polish, cooked buckwheat groats are referred to as kasza gryczana. Kasza can apply to many kinds of groats: millet (kasza jaglana), barley (kasza jęczmienna), pearl barley (kasza jęczmienna perłowa, pęczak), oats (kasza owsiana), as well as porridge made from farina (kasza manna). [4]
Eriogonum ovalifolium var. williamsiae, the steamboat buckwheat, is known only from the Steamboat Hills near Reno, Nevada. [4] It is also a federally listed endangered species, and threats to it have been reduced but the populations are still quite small.
Eriogonum douglasii is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Douglas' buckwheat. ... shaped to oval leaves with blades 0.4 to nearly 2 centimeters long ...
Eriogonum heermannii is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name Heermann's buckwheat. It is native to the southwestern United States from California to Utah where it grows on rocky slopes, desert flats, and dry washes .