Santa Cruz Island buckwheat. Lacy evergreen shrub to 5’ tall with an elegant mounding habit to 6’ wide. Small, narrow gray-green leaves form in whorls at ends of branches. Long-stalked flat clusters of pale to rose-pink flowers bloom from May to September maturing into rust-colored fruits in autumn. Shredding bark falls from the trunk in graceful ribbons. Hardy to 15F. Channel Islands.