Panguitch wild buckwheat

Plants 0.8-3 × 0.5-1.3(-1.5) dm. Leaves: petiole 0.2-0.8 cm, base indistinct, tomentose abaxially; blade linear-oblanceolate to elliptic, (1-)1.5-4(-5) × 0.2-1 cm, margins usually plane. Scapes 0.8-2.5(-3) dm. Flowers 2-2.5 mm. Achenes 3-3.5 mm. 2n = 40.

Flowering Jun-Sep. Clayey slopes, saltbush and sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper and montane conifer woodlands; 1700-2400(-3100) m; Utah.

Variety panguicense is widespread and infrequent to locally common in Garfield, Iron, Kane, Millard, Sanpete, Sevier and Washington counties. It would be an attractive addition to the rock garden.