Eriogonum bicolor, the pretty buckwheat, is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family.
Description E. bicolor is a perennial herbaceous shrub which grows up to tall and across. The pink and white flowers are approximately wide and occur between April and July.
Taxonomy The botanist Marcus E. Jones scientifically described this species in the Eriogonum in 1893, naming it Eriogonum bicolor. The botanist Susan Gabriella Stokes proposed classifying it as a subspecies of Eriogonum microtheca in 1936, but this has not been accepted. Together with its genus it is part of the Polygonaceae family.
Range This shrub is found in central Utah and far western Colorado.
Environment It grows in silty, sandy or heavy clay washes, flats and slopes, saltbush and blackbrush communities, juniper or pinyon-juniper woodlands between the altitudes of and .
References
External links iNaturalist Plants Profile for Eriogonum bicolor (Pretty buckwheat) World Flora Online (2024) Eriogonum bicolor M.E.Jones.