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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eriogonum gracilipes
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=24: 85. 1889
|year=1889
}}
|common_names=White Mountains wild buckwheat
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum kennedyi subsp. gracilipes
|authority=(S. Watson) S. Stokes
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum ochrocephalum var. gracilipes
|authority=(S. Watson) J. T. Howell
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum gracilipes
|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 gracilipes]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 225, 233
|treatment_page=page 282
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> matted, scapose, 0.5–1 × 0.5–2 dm, glandular-hairy, greenish. <b>Stems</b> matted, with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/5 height of plant; caudex stems matted; aerial flowering stems scapelike, erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, (0.2–)0.3–1(–1.2) dm, glandular-hairy. <b>Leaves</b> basal, fasciculate in terminal tufts; petiole (0.5–)0.8–1.7(–2) cm, thinly tomentose, glandular; blade oblanceolate to elliptic, (0.3–)1–1.5(–2) × (0.2–)0.3–0.6 cm, densely white-tomentose and glandular abaxially, less so and greenish adaxially, margins plane. <b>Inflorescences</b> capitate, 1–2 cm; branches absent; bracts 3–5, lanceolate, scalelike, 1.5–3 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> absent. <b>Involucres</b> 5–7 per cluster, turbinate to campanulate, 2–4 × 2–3 mm, membranous, sparsely glandular to glandular-puberulent or pubescent; teeth 5, erect to spreading, 1–1.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 2–3 mm; perianth white to rose, glandular; tepals connate proximal 1/4, monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 2–3.5(–4) mm; filaments pilose proximally. <b>Achenes</b> light brown, 2–2.3(–2.5) mm, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Granitic, sandstone or limestone sandy to gravelly outcrops, slopes, and ridge tops, high-elevation sagebrush communities, subalpine and alpine conifer woodlands
|elevation=2900-3900 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Eriogonum gracilipes</i> is generally found with Great Basin bristlecone pine (<i>Pinus longaeva</i> D. K. Bailey) and foxtail pine (<i>Pinus balfouriana</i> S. Watson) in the higher elevations of the White Mountains and on the eastern edge of the Sierra <i>Nevada</i> immediately to the west. The White Mountains wild buckwheat is restricted to Mono and Inyo counties, California, and just enters Esmeralda County in <i>Nevada</i>. It is occasionally seen in cultivation.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eriogonum gracilipes
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Eriogonum kennedyi subsp. gracilipes;Eriogonum ochrocephalum var. gracilipes
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Granitic, sandstone or limestone sandy to gravelly outcrops, slopes, and ridge tops, high-elevation sagebrush communities, subalpine and alpine conifer woodlands
|elevation=2900-3900 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1889
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum gracilipes
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