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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eriogonum elegans
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pittonia
|place=2: 173. 1891
|year=1891
}}
|common_names=Elegant wild buckwheat
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum baileyi subsp. elegans
|authority=(Greene) Munz
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum vimineum var. elegans
|authority=(Greene) S. Stokes
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Oregonium;Eriogonum elegans
|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. Oregonium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eriogonum elegans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 416, 425
|treatment_page=page 426
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> erect, 1–4 dm; glabrous, grayish. <b>Stems</b>: aerial flowering stems erect, 0.5–1 dm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petiole 0.3–3 cm, thinly tomentose; blade oblong or rounded to subcordate, 0.3–1.5 × 0.3–1.5 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, mostly tomentose and grayish or greenish adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose, occasionally distally uniparous due to suppression of secondary branches, open to somewhat diffuse, 5–3.5 × 5–30 cm; branches glabrous; bracts 0.5–2 × 1–2 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> absent. <b>Involucres</b> somewhat appressed to branches, turbinate, 1–1.5 × 0.6–0.8 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.2–0.3 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 1–1.5 mm; perianth white to rose, glabrous; tepals slightly dimorphic, those of outer whorl oblong-obovate, those of inner whorl oblong; stamens included, 1 mm; filaments pilose proximally. <b>Achenes</b> brown, 3-gonous, 1–1.5 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland communities, oak and pine woodlands
|elevation=200-1200 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Eriogonum elegans</i> is found primarily on the coastal mountains (Fresno, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, and Ventura counties). It is more slender and elegant than <i>E. baileyi</i>. It is rather infrequent especially near the coast, but it can be locally common to even abundant on the Inner Coast Ranges.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eriogonum elegans
|author=
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Eriogonum baileyi subsp. elegans;Eriogonum vimineum var. elegans
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland communities, oak and pine woodlands
|elevation=200-1200 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Pittonia
|publication year=1891
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_888.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Oregonium
|species=Eriogonum elegans
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