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|accepted_name=Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium
|accepted_authority=(Bentham) Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=8: 169. 1870
|year=1870
}}
|common_names=Mojave Desert California buckwheat
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Eriogonum polifolium
|authority=Bentham
|rank=species
|publication_title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication_place=14: 12. 1856
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum fasciculatum var. revolutum
|authority=(Goodding) S. Stokes
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum fasciculatum;Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium
|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 fasciculatum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 299, 300
|treatment_page=page 298
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or subshrubs, compact to spreading, 2–5(–8) × 2–20(–30) dm, tomentose to canescent and grayish. <b>Aerial</b> flowering stems thinly tomentose to canescent, rarely glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blade usually oblanceolate, 0.6–1.8 × (0.1–)0.2–0.6 cm, canescent on both surfaces or densely grayish-tomentose abaxially and canescent adaxially, margins plane or infrequently revolute. <b>Inflorescences</b> capitate to cymose-umbellate, rarely cymose; branches tomentose to canescent, rarely glabrous. <b>Involucres</b> turbinate-campanulate to campanulate, 2.5–3.5 × 2–3 mm, canescent. <b>Perianths</b> pubescent. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, saltbush, blackbrush, and creosote bush communities, pinyon-juniper or juniper woodlands
|elevation=(60-)300-2500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>Variety polifolium is a widespread, common to abundant, or occasionally dominant shrub of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts in Arizona, southern California, southern <i>Nevada</i>, and southwestern Utah. This is the common tetraploid expression of the species. It is occasionally planted as an ornamental in the more arid regions of the American Southwest.</p><!--
--><p>Plants were used by several groups of Native Americans as a medicinal plant to treat a variety of symptoms (D. E. Moerman 1986). It was used also in the practice of witchcraft by the Navajo, in a potion against evil spells.</p>
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name=Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium
|authority=(Bentham) Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Eriogonum fasciculatum var. revolutum
|basionyms=Eriogonum polifolium
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, saltbush, blackbrush, and creosote bush communities, pinyon-juniper or juniper woodlands
|elevation=(60-)300-2500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1870
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum fasciculatum
|variety=Eriogonum fasciculatum var. polifolium
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