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§1 Plant — species · Polygonaceae
Fagopyrum esculentum Moench
vernacular buckwheat
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polygonaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Fagopyrum
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Medium
- Salinity
- None
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 40 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 365 min.
- Precipitation
- 15–50 in/yr
- pH range
- 6–8.5
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Dense
- Porosity (winter)
- Moderate
- Flower colour
- White
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Severe
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 20,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Montana distribution
Recorded in 1 of 56 Montana counties.
Introduced · 1 counties
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FAES2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2889373 ↗Record version
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