General: Panamint Mountains Buckwheat (Eriogonum panamintense) is an evergreen, low-growing subshrub with upright, sparsely leafed stems and flower stalks that stand above the leafy parts of the plant. Most leaves are basal, oval, and densely white-hairy. The flowers are white.

Panamint Mountains Buckwheat is an uncommon component of vegetation communities in the Upper Sonoran (Mojave Desert Scrub and Pinyon-Juniper Woodland) and Transition (Yellow Pine Forest) life zones and can be found on higher bajadas and lower slopes of the mountains.

Family: Buckwheat (Polygonaceae).