Cusick's Buckwheat (Eriogonum cusickii)

Cusick\'s buckwheat, Eriogonum cusickii

Photo Credit: Kris Freitag

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Polygonaceae
State: OR
Nature Serve ID: 133848
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Cusick's Buckwheat (Eriogonum cusickii) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Cusick's Buckwheat can be found in Oregon

Which CPC Partners conserve Cusick's Buckwheat (Eriogonum cusickii)?

Rae Selling Berry Seed Bank & Plant Conservation Program

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 08/06/19

CPC's Plant Sponsorship Program provides long term stewardship of rare plants in our National Collection. We are so grateful for all our donors who have made the Plant Sponsorship Program so successful. We are in the process of acknowledging all our wonderful plant sponsorship donors on our website. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly.

Conservation Actions

Kris Freitag

09/20/2022

As part of CPC's IMLS funded initiative to determine seed storage longevity in wild rare plant species, seed of Cusick’s buckwheat (Eriogonum cusickii) was collected in the BLM’s Black Hills ACEC, just inside the Northern Basin and Range ecoregion of central Oregon. This ACEC was established partly because it contains a healthy population of this rare plant. I arrived at a good time in the plant’s phenology, and the ample seeds were easy to collect by pinching the umbels. Cleaning seed of Eriogonum species is fairly easy using wire mesh to filter out the spent flower parts.