The white or pinkish flowers are up to 3 millimeters wide and are borne in clusters shaped like "drumsticks".

[1] This plant grows only on soils made up of Ordovician limestone in the southern San Francisco Mountains of Utah.

), snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae), dwarf mountain-mahogany (Cercocarpus intricatus), and rock goldenrod (Petradoria pumila).

[1] Threats to this rare species include mining, which has occurred in the San Francisco Mountains for a long time.

[2] The land that supports the plant is littered with tailings and there are many shafts and access roads in the vicinity.

The buckwheat is also threatened by the small size of its populations, making it vulnerable to extirpation, as well as climate change and drought.