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Buckwheats
Fagopyrum
The genus Fagopyrum is in the flowering plant family Polygonaceae. It includes some important food plants, such as F. esculentum (buckwheat) and F. tataricum (Tartary buckwheat). The genus is native to the Indian subcontinent, much of Indochina, central and southeastern China, and central and eastern tropical Africa. Species have been widely introduced elsewhere, throughout the Holarctic and parts of Africa and South America.
29 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Common Buckwheat
speciesFagopyrum esculentum
Tall Buckwheat
speciesFagopyrum cymosum
Tartarian Buckwheat
speciesFagopyrum tataricum
Fagopyrum gracilipes
speciesFagopyrum gracilipes
Fagopyrum snowdenii
speciesFagopyrum snowdenii
Fagopyrum leptopodum
speciesFagopyrum leptopodum
Fagopyrum gilesii
speciesFagopyrum gilesii
Fagopyrum urophyllum
speciesFagopyrum urophyllum
Fagopyrum caudatum
speciesFagopyrum caudatum
Fagopyrum zuogongense
speciesFagopyrum zuogongense
Fagopyrum wenchuanense
speciesFagopyrum wenchuanense
Fagopyrum tibeticum
speciesFagopyrum tibeticum
Fagopyrum rubrifolium
speciesFagopyrum rubrifolium
Fagopyrum qiangcai
speciesFagopyrum qiangcai
Fagopyrum pugense
speciesFagopyrum pugense
Fagopyrum pleioramosum
speciesFagopyrum pleioramosum
Fagopyrum macrocarpum
speciesFagopyrum macrocarpum
Fagopyrum luojishanense
speciesFagopyrum luojishanense
Fagopyrum longzhoushanense
speciesFagopyrum longzhoushanense
Fagopyrum kashmirianum
speciesFagopyrum kashmirianum
Fagopyrum jinshaense
speciesFagopyrum jinshaense
Fagopyrum homotropicum
speciesFagopyrum homotropicum
Fagopyrum gracilipedoides
speciesFagopyrum gracilipedoides
Fagopyrum densivillosum
speciesFagopyrum densivillosum
Fagopyrum crispatifolium
speciesFagopyrum crispatifolium
Fagopyrum capillatum
speciesFagopyrum capillatum
Fagopyrum callianthum
speciesFagopyrum callianthum
Fagopyrum statice
speciesFagopyrum statice
Fagopyrum lineare
speciesFagopyrum lineare
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 145602.