Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)

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Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name: Fagopyrum esculentum Moench
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.: Fagopyrum esculentum
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.: Moench
Common names: Buckwheat, Brank, Common Buckwheat, Japanese Buckwheat, Silverhull Buckwheat, garden buckwheat
Names in other languages (66)
Almindelig boghvede, Ble noir, Blé noir, Boekweit, Boekwiet, Boghvede, Bokvete, Buchweizen, Buckwheat (EN), Echter Buchweizen, Echter Buchweizen (DE), Grano saraceno comune, Gryka zwyczajna, Gwenith y Bwch, Gwenith yr Hydd, Heidekorn, Kara Buğday, Pohánka, Sarrasin, Sarrasin commun, Sarrasin commun, Sarrasin cultivé, blé noir, Sarrasin cultivé, Blé noir, Sarrasin, Sėjamasis grikis, Trigo sarraceno, Trigo-mourisco, Vanligt bovete, alforfón, bokhvete, bokkveite, bokwiet, bouquette, bovete, faggina, fagopiro, grano saraceno, grano sarraceno, grano turco, gre&ccaron;icha kul'turnaja, gre&ccaron;icha posevnaja, grečicha kul'turnaja, grečicha posevnaja, harilik tatar, memil, mourisco, pohanka obecná, pohánka jedlá, qiao mai, renouée, renouée sarrasin, rievdneguoita, sarasin, sarrasin comestible, soba, sējas griķis, tattari, trigo-sarraceno, viljatattari, Гречиха посевная, Гречка звичайна (Гречка посівна), כוסמת, حنطة سوداء, บักวีต, ソバ, 蕎麥, 蕎麦, 메밀
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).: Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.: Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).: Caryophyllales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).: Polygonaceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.: Fagopyrum
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.: esculentum
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.: species
Reference species: Fagopyrum esculentum
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.: accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.: Not evaluated (NE)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-30 17:12.

Photo of Fagopyrum esculentum Moench — Photo: Philokretes · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-30 17:12.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 5 of 5 is pollinated by × has its flowers visited by × is eaten by × interacts with × is visited by ×

Blocks that do not sit under a navigation concept heading keep the source's own term: no navigation concept has been assigned to them yet.

Pollination

is pollinated by 2 organisms

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	is pollinated by	2	not compared
2 sources · 94 records Hajnalka Szentgyorgyi, Michal Woyciechowski Published in ibartomeus/CropPol Record contexts (sample): no place published · Jan. 1, 2005; no place published · Jan. 1, 2005 Hisatomo Taki, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute Published in ibartomeus/CropPol Record contexts (sample): no place published · Jan. 1, 2007; no place published · Jan. 1, 2007 A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Honey Bee Apis cerana Apidae	is pollinated by	1	not compared
1 source · 28 records Hisatomo Taki, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute Published in ibartomeus/CropPol Record contexts (sample): no place published · Jan. 1, 2007; no place published · Jan. 1, 2007 A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Flower visit

has its flowers visited by 2 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	has its flowers visited by	7	not compared
7 sources · 18 records Clint Otto, Russ Bryant, and Ned H. Euliss Jr., 2020, The U.S. Geological Survey Pollinator Library Dataset: U.S. Geological Survey. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9DSS3VL. Accessed at <https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/5f076d2082ce21d4c3fb7426?f=__disk__c5%2F05%2Fa4%2Fc505… Published in globalbioticinteractions/usgs-pollinator-library Record contexts (sample): North Dakota · Aug. 10, 2015; North Dakota · Aug. 10, 2015 Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Record contexts (sample): no place published · no date published; no place published · no date published N. L. Carreck et al., 2002. Food for insect pollinators on farmland: Insect visits to flowers of annual seed mixtures. Journal of Insect Conservation, 6. doi:10.1023/A:1015764925536 Published in globalbioticinteractions/dopi Record contexts (sample): no place published · Jan. 1, 1997 · DO; no place published · Jan. 1, 1996 · DO https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/227893311 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · July 7, 2024 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/246245755 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Sept. 1, 2017 · Human observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178288062 Published in globalbioticinteractions/inaturalist Context: no place published · Aug. 13, 2023 · Human observation Redhead, J.W.; Coombes, C.F.; Dean, H.J.; Dyer, R.; Oliver, T.H.; Pocock, M.J.O.; Rorke, S.L.; Vanbergen, A.J.; Woodcock, B.A.; Pywell, R.F. (2018). Plant-pollinator interactions database for construction of potential networks. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https:/… Published in zedomel/redhead2018 Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.
Honey Bee Apis cerana Apidae	has its flowers visited by Refuted	1	no location
1 source · 1 record Records of organisms other than plants having flower visitors are probably errors Published in globalbioticinteractions/refuted-biotic-interactions-by-eol Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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is eaten by 1 organism

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented	Actions
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	is eaten by	2	no location
2 sources · 2 records Meagan Simons (Expert) Published in globalbioticinteractions/hale2024 Context: no place published · no date published Jordon Tourville (Expert) Published in globalbioticinteractions/hale2024 Context: no place published · no date published A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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interacts with 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented	Actions
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	interacts with	132	not compared
132 sources · 132 records https://ecdysis.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3110962 Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecdysis Context: Miami (10 km W) · Aug. 25, 2020 · Preserved specimen https://ecdysis.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3110963 Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecdysis Context: Miami (10 km W) · Aug. 25, 2020 · Preserved specimen https://ecdysis.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3110964 Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecdysis Context: Miami (10 km W) · Aug. 25, 2020 · Preserved specimen https://ecdysis.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3110965 Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecdysis Context: Miami (10 km W) · Aug. 25, 2020 · Preserved specimen https://ecdysis.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3110966 Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecdysis Context: Miami (10 km W) · Aug. 25, 2020 · Preserved specimen https://ecdysis.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3110967 Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecdysis Context: Miami (10 km W) · Aug. 25, 2020 · Preserved specimen https://ecdysis.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3110968 Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecdysis Context: Miami (10 km W) · Aug. 25, 2020 · Preserved specimen https://ecdysis.org/collections/individual/index.php?occid=3110969 Published in globalbioticinteractions/ecdysis Context: Miami (10 km W) · Aug. 25, 2020 · Preserved specimen And 124 more sources, with fewer records, not listed here. A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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is visited by 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism	Reads as	Studies	Where it was documented	Actions
European Honey Bee Apis mellifera Apidae	is visited by	2	not compared
2 sources · 2 records @article{klein_importance_2007, title = {Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops}, volume = {274}, url = {https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2006.3721}, doi = {10.1098/rspb.2006.3721}, abstract = {The extent of our reliance on a… Published in globalbioticinteractions/eupollinatorhub Context: no place published · no date published Rubinigg M. 2023 Data on economic dependence of pollination by animals in crops as well as observations of pollinators on plant species, inon economic dependence of pollination by animals in crops as well as observations of pollinators on plant species, in particular crops. EU P… Published in globalbioticinteractions/eupollinatorhub Context: Graz · 0009-01-01T00:00:00Z A published relationship says these two taxa were documented interacting. It does not say how often, or that it happens in this project's region.

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Interaction data from Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI), GloBI 0.11. Each row keeps the citation its own study published.

Interactions are published at species level: they are not resolved by variety or race.

Each block is headed by the source's own term, read from this species' end — not by a category of ours. Two similar terms are not merged.

«Documented here» means the interaction was observed in this territory. It is not evidence that the species is here, and it does not enter the niche model.

Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

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Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.