Images of Buckwheat
Note: The following cover crop images are part of an extensive collection of cover crop photographs maintained the UC SAREP staff. The images have not been completely categorized and labeled. Some will be included in a book on cover crops due out in 1997, but all images have been made available online because of the overwhelming number of requests we have had for them.
	Buckwheat root system. Photo by Bob Bugg.
	Wasp on buckwheat blossoms. Photo by Tom Girardeau.
	The root system of buckwheat includes a taproot as well as densely fibrous superficial roots. Photo by Bob Bugg.
	Buckwheat may be used as a summer-annual cover crop in vineyards. Photo by Bob Bugg.

	Scoliid wasps and many other insects use buckwheat nectar. Southern Georgia. Photo by Bob Bugg.
	Buckwheat seedlings are vigorous and establish quickly. Photo by Bob Bugg.Buck
	Buckwheat flowers about 30 days after sowing.
	Scoliid wasps often use buckwheat as a nectar source. Tifton, GA. Photo by Tom Girardeau.

	Buckwheat is sometimes used as a summer cover crop in vineyards. Photo by Chuck Ingels.
	Cercerine sphecid wasp on buckwheat blossom. Tifton, GA. Photo by Tom Girardeau.
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