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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eriogonum kingii
|accepted_authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=8: 165. 1870
|year=1870
}}
|common_names=Ruby Mountains wild buckwheat
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum kingii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eriogonum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Eriogonum subg. Eucycla]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eriogonum kingii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 233
|treatment_page=page 281
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> matted, scapose, 0.2–1.5 × 0.5–4 dm, tomentose or floccose to subglabrous, greenish or grayish. <b>Stems</b> matted, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.2–1(–1.5) dm, tomen-tose or floccose to subglabrous or even glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole (0.2–)0.4–2(–3) cm, tomentose; blade oblanceolate to spatulate or elliptic, 0.5–1.5(–2) × (0.2–)0.3–0.8(–1) cm, densely white- or greenish-tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane. <b>Inflorescences</b> capitate, 0.8–1.7(–2) cm; branches absent; bracts 3–5, linear to narrowly scalelike, triangular, 1.5–3 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> absent. <b>Involucres</b> 3–5 per cluster, turbinate-campanulate to campanulate, 2.5–3.5 × 2.5–4 mm, membranous, sparsely pubescent or rarely sparsely glandular abaxially; teeth 5–6, erect to spreading, 0.7–1.8(–2) mm. <b>Flowers</b> (2.5–)3–3.5 mm; perianth greenish yellow or pale yellow, rarely yellow, glabrous or sparsely glandular abaxially; tepals connate proximal 1/4–1/2, monomorphic, spatulate to obovate; stamens exserted, 2–3.5 mm; filaments glabrous or sparsely pilose proximally. <b>Achenes</b> light brown, 2.5–3 mm, glabrous except for slightly papillate beak in some. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Limestone or granitic gravelly slopes and ridges, mixed grassland and sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper and subalpine conifer woodlands
|elevation=1600-3300 m
|distribution=Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Eriogonum kingii</i> is known only from Elko and northern White Pine counties. It is occasionally cultivated in rock gardens.</p>
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name=Eriogonum kingii
|author=
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Limestone or granitic gravelly slopes and ridges, mixed grassland and sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper and subalpine conifer woodlands
|elevation=1600-3300 m
|distribution=Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1870
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum kingii
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