Eriogonum parvifoliumSm.

Seacliff Wild Buckwheat

WFO wfo-0000675279 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Eriogonum parvifolium, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. a Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 204031951
Eriogonum parvifolium, photographed by Alexander Wentworth
fig. b Alexander Wentworth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185150747
Eriogonum parvifolium, photographed by James C. Davis
fig. c James C. Davis, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184260944
Eriogonum parvifolium, photographed by Rupert Clayton
fig. d Rupert Clayton, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174366875
Eriogonum parvifolium, photographed by Cricket Raspet
fig. e Cricket Raspet, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170701154
Eriogonum parvifolium, photographed by George Williams
fig. f George Williams, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158476048
Eriogonum parvifolium, photographed by Henrik Kibak
fig. g Henrik Kibak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173678149
Eriogonum parvifolium, photographed by Megan Ralph
fig. h Megan Ralph, CC0 1.0 / obs. 158008789

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 894 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 894 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Eriogonum parvifolium subsp. lucidum J.T.Howell ex S.Stokes
  • Eriogonum parvifolium subsp. paynei C.B.Wolf ex Munz
  • Eriogonum parvifolium var. crassifolium Benth.
  • Eriogonum parvifolium var. lucidum (J.T.Howell ex S.Stokes) Reveal
  • Eriogonum parvifolium var. paynei (C.B.Wolf ex Munz) Reveal

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.