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|accepted_name=Eriogonum exilifolium
|accepted_authority=Reveal
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Great Basin Naturalist
|place=27: 114, fig. 1. 1967
|year=1967
}}
|common_names=Drop-leaf wild buckwheat
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum exilifolium
|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 exilifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 241
|treatment_page=page 263
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> matted, not scapose, 0.3–1 × 1–2 dm, glabrous, green. <b>Stems</b> spreading, usually with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems mostly erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.03–0.1 dm, glabrous or floccose or sparsely tomentose. <b>Leaves</b> basal, 1 per node but congested; petiole 0.5–1 cm, tomentose to floccose or glabrous; blade linear to linear-oblanceolate, (2–)3–6 × 0.1–0.3 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, less so or glabrous and green adaxially, margins revolute. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose-umbellate, 1.5–3 × 1.5–3 cm; branches dichotomous, glabrous; bracts 3, semileaflike, usually triangular, 3–5 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> stout, 0.1–0.4 cm, glabrous. <b>Involucres</b> 1 per node, turbinate-campanulate, 2.5–3.5(–4.5) × 2–3 mm, glabrous except for cottony tomentum between teeth; teeth 5, erect, 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 2–3.5 mm; perianth white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/4–1/3, monomorphic, oblanceolate to elliptic; stamens exserted, 3–4 mm; filaments sparsely pilose proximally. <b>Achenes</b> brown, 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Clay hills and flats or granitic sandy slopes, mixed grassland and sagebrush communities
|elevation=2200-2600 m
|distribution=Colo.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Eriogonum exilifolium is known only from Grand, Jackson, and Larimer counties, Colorado, and from Carbon and Albany counties, Wyoming. The drop-leaf wild buckwheat is a “species of concern” in Wyoming.</p>
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name=Eriogonum exilifolium
|author=
|authority=Reveal
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Clay hills and flats or granitic sandy slopes, mixed grassland and sagebrush communities
|elevation=2200-2600 m
|distribution=Colo.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Great Basin Naturalist
|publication year=1967
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum exilifolium
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