The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·162931SpeciesPlantae236 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›pinks, cactuses, and allies
  6. ›knotweed family
  7. ›Polygonoideae
  8. ›Fagopyreae
  9. ›Fagopyrum
Tartarian Buckwheat
Plate 1 of 11. (c) Саранчин Евгений, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Саранчин Евгений · via iNaturalist

Tartarian Buckwheat

Fagopyrum tataricum

Fagopyrum tataricum, also known as Tartary buckwheat, green buckwheat, ku qiao, or bitter buckwheat, is a domesticated food plant in the genus Fagopyrum in the family Polygonaceae. With another species in the same genus, common buckwheat, it is often counted as a cereal, but unlike the true cereals the buckwheats are not members of the grass family. Thus they are not related to true wheat. Tartary buckwheat is more bitter, but contains more rutin than common...

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Fagopyrum tataricum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 162931.