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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eriogonum bicolor
|accepted_authority=M. E. Jones
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Zoë
|place=4: 281. 1893
|year=1893
}}
|common_names=Pretty wild buckwheat
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum microthecum subsp. bicolor
|authority=(M. E. Jones) S. Stokes
|rank=subspecies
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum bicolor
|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 bicolor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 231, 240
|treatment_page=page 253
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> compact, not scapose, 0.2–0.8 × 0.5–2(–3) dm, reddish- or tannish-tomentose, reddish. <b>Stems</b> erect to slightly spreading, often with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/4 height of plant; caudex stems compact; aerial flowering stems spreading to somewhat erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.05–0.2 dm, tomentose. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, 1 per node or fasciculate; petiole 0.1–0.2 cm, tomentose to floccose; blade linear-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 0.5–1.7(–2) × 0.1–0.2(–0.3) cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, slightly less so and often reddish or tannish adaxially, margins revolute. <b>Inflorescences</b> umbellate to cymose, compact, rarely reduced to single involucre, 0.5–1 × 0.5–1.5 cm; branches dichotomous, tomentose; bracts 3, scalelike, linear, 0.7–1.3 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> erect, 0.1–0.3(–0.4) cm, tomentose to floccose. <b>Involucres</b> 1 per node, turbinate-campanulate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm, tomentose to floccose or glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.4–0.7 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 2.5–4(–4.5) mm; perianth white, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/4, dimorphic, those of outer whorl broadly obovate to nearly orbiculate, (2–)2.5–3 mm wide, those of inner whorl oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1–1.5 mm wide; stamens long-exserted, 3–5 mm; filaments sparsely pilose proximally or glabrous. <b>Achenes</b> light brown, 3–3.5 mm, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Silty, sandy, or heavy clay washes, flats, and slopes, saltbush and blackbrush communities, juniper or pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=1300-2000(-2300) m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Eriogonum bicolor</i> is common from Castle Valley and the San Rafael Swells of Carbon and Emery counties, Utah, eastward to Grand Valley of Grand County, Utah, and Mesa County, Colorado. It occurs to the south in Garfield, San Juan, Sevier, and Wayne counties of Utah, especially in Canyonlands National Park and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The species is worthy of cultivation, although being a slow-growing perennial of rather specialized soils it is a challenge. Seed germination in garden plots is reasonably successful; transplanting is difficult.</p>
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name=Eriogonum bicolor
|authority=M. E. Jones
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Eriogonum microthecum subsp. bicolor
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Silty, sandy, or heavy clay washes, flats, and slopes, saltbush and blackbrush communities, juniper or pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=1300-2000(-2300) m
|distribution=Colo.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Zoë
|publication year=1893
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum bicolor
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