Definition of California buckwheat

1. Noun. Low-growing shrub with spreading branches and flowers in loose heads; desert regions of western United States (California to Utah).

Exact synonyms: Erigonum Fasciculatum, Wild Buckwheat
Generic synonyms: Eriogonum

Lexicographical Neighbors of California Buckwheat

California Condor
California Condors
California Personality Inventory
California Spangled Cat
California allspice
California bay tree
California beauty
California black oak
California black walnut
California blackberries
California blackberry
California blanket
California bluebell
California box elder
California buckthorn
California buckwheat (current term)
California coffee
California condor
California dandelion
California dewberries
California dewberry
California encephalitis
California false morel
California fern
California four o'clock
California fuchsia
California holly
California lady's slipper

Literary usage of California buckwheat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Wild Land Shrub and Arid Land Restoration Symposium: Proceedings edited by Bruce A. Roundy, E. Durant McArthur, Jennifer S. Hayley, David K. Mann (1996)
"They did major damage to the barley and California buckwheat plants, ... California buckwheat Next to barley, this was the most successful species over the ..."

2. The California Spotted Owl: A Technical Assessment of Its Current Status. by Jared Verner (1992)
"California buckwheat (vegetative parts), white sage (seeds, flowers, vegetative parts), and California scrub oak (leaves, fruits) (Meserve 1974). ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and Colorado; barley in parts of Wisconsin and California; buckwheat in a few counties in Pennsylvania and New York; ..."

4. Supplemental Digest of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Act by Herbert Confield Lust (1917)
"California. Buckwheat, corn flour and wheat flour. Class Rates, §2 (h). Flour: Differentials §8 (jj); Equalization of Rates §3 (cc). Bran, §3 (dd). ..."

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