Featured in the song "Hotel California" by The Eagles, Colitas have been repeatedly defined by Don Henley and
Don Felder as "desert flowers", the Colita de Rata, or
Wild Buckwheat.
A perennial up to one foot 30.5 cm tall, favoring dry rocky slopes,
Wild buckwheat has a basal whorl of grayish spoon-shaped leaves. Creamy white flowers form in clusters on the stem.