69 photographs › At a glance
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- Sep, under 5 mm of rain
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- Dec, shaded
Summary
Eriogonum grande is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name redflower buckwheat. It is native to northwestern Baja California, as well as the Channel Islands of California. It is a mat-forming perennial herb producing tall, stout inflorescences of white, pink, or red flowers. Leaves are located mainly at the base of the plant and are wavy along the edges and up to 10 centimeters long.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Eriogonum grande", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (322 mm of 414 mm) falls in December to March, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 13.2 °C against a yearly mean of 15.1 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: June to September.
Rain
414 mm in the median year at the habitat, 322 mm of it December to March. Wettest months (2 at 92 mm), driest months (2 at 1 mm); 4 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 256 mm to 604 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 413 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 414 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 19 to 52 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 18, the highest 90th-percentile month 52).
Warmth and air
Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 12.1 °C in March (across the grid cells of the range 9.5 °C to 13.0 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 19.2 °C in August (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 12.1 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, March, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell that is mostly sea and are not used.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 58 to 71% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 14 °C in Jan, Feb and Mar to 19 °C in Aug and Sep; mean nightly low from 12 °C in Jan, Feb, Mar and Apr to 17 °C in Aug and Sep. The cold quarter, Jan to Mar, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, centred on the 4 months in a row that tie for it. 414 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest months (2 at 92 mm). The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 73 habitat cells. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 14 / 13–17 | 14 / 13–17 | 14 / 13–18 | 15 / 13–20 | 16 / 14–21 | 17 / 15–22 | 18 / 16–25 | 19 / 17–26 | 19 / 17–25 | 18 / 17–23 | 16 / 16–20 | 15 / 13–17 |
| Night °C | 12 / 8–13 | 12 / 9–13 | 12 / 10–13 | 12 / 11–14 | 13 / 12–15 | 15 / 14–16 | 16 / 15–18 | 17 / 15–18 | 17 / 16–18 | 16 / 14–17 | 14 / 11–15 | 13 / 8–14 |
| Rain mm | 92 / 51–131 | 92 / 58–132 | 67 / 43–92 | 26 / 14–37 | 7 / 4–10 | 2 / 1–3 | 1 / 0–1 | 1 / 1–2 | 4 / 3–5 | 15 / 10–23 | 36 / 22–53 | 71 / 41–98 |
| DLI | 21 / 19–22 | 26 / 25–27 | 36 / 34–37 | 45 / 43–45 | 49 / 48–50 | 52 / 50–52 | 50 / 49–51 | 47 / 45–47 | 39 / 38–40 | 31 / 29–32 | 23 / 22–24 | 19 / 18–20 |
| RH % | 58 / 54–61 | 60 / 57–62 | 62 / 58–65 | 63 / 58–67 | 67 / 59–74 | 70 / 59–81 | 71 / 59–87 | 70 / 58–88 | 67 / 57–81 | 63 / 56–68 | 59 / 53–62 | 58 / 54–60 |
The daily extremes were read at a NASA POWER cell that is 24% land: neither it nor the next candidates whose coldest month's mean nightly low is within 2 °C of the median across cells sit in a POWER cell that is mostly land, and the rule reads a cold floor only from a cell that is mostly land, so none is read for this species. Nor is the coldest month's mean nightly low taken as one: it is a mean of a month's lows, not its coldest night. What that cell gave over 44 years: absolute minimum 4.5 °C, 1st-percentile night 8.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 23.7 °C.
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Melanie J. Davis, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Brian Finzel, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (3).
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Also known as Eriogonum grande subsp. grande; Eriogonum latifolium subsp. grande; Eriogonum nudum var. grande. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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