St. Catherine's Lace

A native from the Channel Islands, Eriogonum giganteum is California’s largest buckwheat (about 5 feet tall and 5 feet wide or even larger). The plant produces giant cream-pink umbels of flowers bigger than dinner plates that form an umbrella over the grey foliage starting in May (sometimes even April). It is covered in intricate lacelike clusters of flowers so thick you can barely see the foliage!