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|accepted_name=Eriogonum rubricaule
|accepted_authority=Tidestrom
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|place=36: 181. 1923
|year=1923
}}
|common_names=Lahontan Basin wild buckwheat
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum laetum
|authority=S. Stokes
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum trichopes var. rubricaule
|authority=(Tidestrom) S. Stokes
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Ganysma;Eriogonum rubricaule
|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. Ganysma]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eriogonum rubricaule]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 383
|treatment_page=page 394
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> erect, annual, (0.5–)1–4(–8) dm, glabrous, green to yellowish green. <b>Stems</b>: caudex absent; aerial flowering stems erect, occasionally hollow and fistulose, 0.3–1.3(–2) dm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petiole 2–3(–4) cm, pilose-hispid; blade round to reniform, 1–2(–3) × (0.5–)1–3 (3.5) cm, pilose-hispid and bright green on both surfaces, margins plane. <b>Inflorescences</b> narrowly cymose, open, 5–30(–50) × 5–35 cm; branches occasionally fistulose, glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, 1–4 × 0.5–2 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> erect or nearly so, straight, slender, 0.2–0.3 cm, glabrous. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 2.5–3 × 2.5–3 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 1.5–2 mm; perianth pale yellow to yellow with light green or reddish midribs, becoming yellowish red, glabrous, papillate in fruit; tepals monomorphic, narrowly ovate; stamens included to exserted, 1–2 mm; filaments glabrous. <b>Achenes</b> light brown, 3-gonous, 2–2.5 mm, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Oct.
|habitat=Clayey, sandy or gravelly, often volcanic outcrops, washes, flats, and slopes, saltbush, greasewood, and sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=1100-1800 m
|distribution=Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Eriogonum rubricaule</i> occurs on the eastern half of the pluvial Lahontan Lake basin of northwestern <i>Nevada</i> (Churchill, Esmeralda, Humboldt, Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing, and Washoe counties). It tends to occur on or near the old lakeshore at the bases of the mountains, where it is infrequent to locally common.</p>
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name=Eriogonum rubricaule
|author=
|authority=Tidestrom
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Eriogonum laetum;Eriogonum trichopes var. rubricaule
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Oct.
|habitat=Clayey, sandy or gravelly, often volcanic outcrops, washes, flats, and slopes, saltbush, greasewood, and sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=1100-1800 m
|distribution=Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|publication year=1923
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Ganysma
|species=Eriogonum rubricaule
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