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Polygonaceae
Silverhull buckwheat
Fagopyrum esculentum
Also known as Common buckwheat, Kunokale carneum, Helxine fagopyrum, Fagopyrum macropterum var. emarginatum
Flowering Plants · Native Plants · Buckwheat · Grain · Cover Crop · Pollinator · Fast Growing · Edible Seed · Companion Planting · Green Manure · Cool Season · Food Crop
Buckwheat is a fast-growing, easy-to-maintain grain crop that thrives in average to poor soils with moderate moisture and full sun to partial shade. It establishes quickly and produces masses of small white flowers that are highly attractive to pollinators, making it an excellent cover crop or companion plant. Harvest seeds once the hulls turn dark brown and the plant begins to dry down.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 6 hours
- Watering
- Water moderately to keep soil evenly moist but not waterlogged; reduce watering once established · Every 7-14 days
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil pH
- 6–8.5
- Temperature
- -30°F to 95°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
Hardiness
USDA 4a-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Spacing
- 6 in apart
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Flowers
- Yes
- Foliage
- Fine
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Assam, Austria, Bahamas, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Bulgaria, Buryatiya
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies, Moths
Sources: trefle, usda
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