Common Name: Buckwheat Latin Name: Polygonacea - although by some botanists, the Buckwheat is separated from the Polygonums, receiving the name Fagopyrum esculentum (Moench). LOCATION: Idlewild Park Reno Buckwheat, a corruption of Boek-weit, the Dutch form of the name, adopted with its culture from the Dutch, meaning 'Beech-wheat' (German Buchweizen), a translation of the Latin name Fagopyrum (Latin fagus, a beech).