The white puffballs on the California buckwheat, Eriogonum fasciculatum, turn orange in the fall … but until then, they’re a native food source, and a particular favorite of honeybees — like the one I captured below.
Here’s a California buckwheat growing at the bottom of the yucca plant that was photographed in flower a month ago.
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