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|accepted_name=Eriogonum mensicola
|accepted_authority=S. Stokes
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|place=3: 16. 1941
|year=1941
}}
|common_names=Scale-bract wild buckwheat
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum panamintense var. mensicola
|authority=(S. Stokes) Reveal
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum mensicola
|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 mensicola]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 227, 235
|treatment_page=page 295
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> erect, (1–)1.5–3 × 1–2 dm, tomentose, grayish. <b>Stems</b> slightly spreading to erect, without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/5 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.5–1(–1.3) dm, tomentose. <b>Leaves</b> basal, 1 per node; petiole 1–2 cm, tomentose; blade round, (0.3–)0.5–1.5 × (0.3–)1–1.5 cm, tomentose abaxially, thinly floccose and green adaxially, or white-tomentose on both surfaces, margins plane. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose with involucres racemosely disposed at tips, 10–15(–20) × 0.6–3(–5) cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, linear to narrowly triangular, and 1–3 mm, or leaflike, ovate to orbiculate, and 5–12 × 5–12 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> absent. <b>Involucres</b> 1 per node, campanulate, 2–3(–4) × 2–4 mm, tomentose; teeth 5, erect, 0.4–0.8 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 3–4 mm, perianth white to whitish brown, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/4, monomorphic, oblanceolate; stamens exserted, 3–6 mm; filaments pilose proximally. <b>Achenes</b> light brown, 2.5–3 mm, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Rocky to gravelly flats and slopes, sagebrush and mountain mahogany communities, pinyon-juniper and montane conifer woodlands
|elevation=1800-2700 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Eriogonum mensicola</i> is infrequent in the Inyo Mountains and the Panamint and Coso ranges of Inyo County, California, with a disjunct population on the Sheep Range in Clark County, <i>Nevada</i>.</p>
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name=Eriogonum mensicola
|author=
|authority=S. Stokes
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Eriogonum panamintense var. mensicola
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Rocky to gravelly flats and slopes, sagebrush and mountain mahogany communities, pinyon-juniper and montane conifer woodlands
|elevation=1800-2700 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication year=1941
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum mensicola
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