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Eriogonum giganteum is a species of wild buckwheat known by the common name St. Catherine's lace. This shrub is endemic to the Channel Islands of California. It is variable in size, from a thin half a meter in height and width to a sprawling or rounded bush over three meters high and wide. The leathery, woolly, oval-shaped leaves are clustered sparsely along the mostly naked branches. The plant flowers densely in carpets of clustered tiny flowers, each hairy pinkish white flower only a few millimeters across. One variety of this geographically limited plant, the Santa Barbara Island buckwheat (var. compactum), is particularly rare.
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