View source for Eriogonum smithii

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|accepted_name=Eriogonum smithii
|accepted_authority=Reveal
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Great Basin Naturalist
|place=27: 202, fig. 6. 1968
|year=1968
}}
|common_names=Smith’s wild buckwheat
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum corymbosum var. smithii
|authority=(Reveal) S. L. Welsh
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum smithii
|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 smithii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 232
|treatment_page=page 260
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> erect to spreading, not scapose, (3–)4–10 × 5–20 dm, glabrous, bright green. <b>Stems</b> spreading, without persistent leaf bases, up to 1/3 height of plant; caudex stems absent; aerial flowering stems erect to spreading, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.2–2 dm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline on proximal 2/3 of stem, 1 per node; petiole 0.3–0.5 cm, floccose or glabrous; blade narrowly elliptic, 2.5–4.5 × (0.3–)0.6–1 cm, glabrous and green on both surfaces, rarely thinly floccose adaxially, margins occasionally slightly revolute. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose, open to compact, 2–25 × 3–35 cm; branches often with involucres racemosely arranged at tips of inflorescence, glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, linear to triangular, 1.5–4.5 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> absent. <b>Involucres</b> 1 per node, turbinate, (2.5–)3–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm, glabrous; teeth 5, erect, 0.3–0.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 3–4 mm; perianth yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximal 1/4, slightly dimorphic, those of outer whorl obovate, 1.5–2 mm wide, those of inner whorl oblanceolate, 1–1.5 mm wide; stamens exserted, 2–5(–7) mm; filaments pilose proximally. <b>Achenes</b> brown, 3–3.5 mm, glabrous except for minutely papillate beak. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Deep, moving, red blow sand, mixed grassland and scrub oak communities
|elevation=1400-1900 m
|distribution=Utah.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Eriogonum smithii</i> is restricted to the San Rafael Desert of Emery and Wayne counties. Plants from Little Gilson Butte (J. L. Anderson 86-228, BRY) have leaf blades thinly floccose on the abaxial surface but are otherwise similar to the shrubs found at Flat Top to the east. Smith’s wild buckwheat occurs in selenium-rich sands, which may limit its ability to be cultivated. The bright green, brilliantly yellow-flowered plants would make an elegant addition to the garden.</p>
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name=Eriogonum smithii
|authority=Reveal
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Eriogonum corymbosum var. smithii
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Deep, moving, red blow sand, mixed grassland and scrub oak communities
|elevation=1400-1900 m
|distribution=Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Great Basin Naturalist
|publication year=1968
|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum smithii
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