WordNet
wild buckwheat
n. low-growing shrub with spreading branches and flowers in loose heads; desert regions of western United States (California to Utah) [syn: California buckwheat, Erigonum fasciculatum]
Usage examples of "wild buckwheat".
Gnarled juniper trees dotted the strange landscape, and Mormon tea bushes, wild buckwheat, and a sprinkling of purple verbena grew in sandy patches.
Below the foothills we came upon a sandy wagon track that ran east and west, in a fairly straight line through clumps of wild buckwheat and chaparral.