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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eriogonum parvifolium
|accepted_authority=Smith in A. Rees
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. Rees, Cycl.
|place=13(2): Eriogonum no. 2. 1809
|year=1809
}}
|common_names=Seacliff wild buckwheat
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum parvifolium var. crassifolium
|authority=Bentham
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum parvifolium subsp. lucidum
|authority=J. T. Howell ex S. Stokes
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum parvifolium var. lucidum
|authority=(J. T. Howell ex S. Stokes) Reveal
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum parvifolium subsp. paynei
|authority=C. B. Wolf ex Munz
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum parvifolium var. paynei
|authority=(C. B. Wolf ex Munz) Reveal
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum parvifolium
|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 parvifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 227
|treatment_page=page 300
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> matted to spreading or rounded, 3–10 × 5–20(–25) dm, thinly tomentose or glabrous, greenish. <b>Stems</b> spreading, sometimes matted, often with persistent leaf bases, up to 1/2 or more height of plant; caudex stems absent or matted; aerial flowering stems prostrate, spreading, or erect, slender, solid, not fistulose, 0.2–1 dm, thinly tomentose or glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, fasciculate, infrequently 1 per node; petiole 0.1–0.7 cm, floccose; blade lanceolate to round, 0.5–3 × 0.3–0.8(–1.2) cm, lanate to tomentose abaxially, mostly glabrous and olive green to green adaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> capitate to cymose, 20–30 × 2–10 cm; branches dichotomous, thinly tomentose or glabrous; bracts 3, scalelike, triangular, and 1–2 mm, or leaflike, usually elliptic, and 5–20 × 2–10 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> absent. <b>Involucres</b> 2–7 per cluster, turbinate-campanulate, (2.5–)3–4 × 2–3.5 mm, floccose to glabrate; teeth 5, erect, 0.5–0.9 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 2.5–3 mm; perianth white to pinkish or greenish yellow, glabrous; tepals connate proximally, monomorphic, obovate; stamens exserted, 2.5–3.5 mm; filaments pilose proximally. <b>Achenes</b> brown, 2.5–3 mm, glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Sandy beaches, dunes, and bluffs or sandy to gravelly inland slopes and flats, coastal grassland and chaparral communities, oak and pine woodlands
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>The native range of <i>Eriogonum parvifolium</i> is restricted to coastal and near-coastal areas (Los Angeles, Monterey, Orange, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties). The coastal expression (var. parvifolium) has thickened leaf blades (0.5–1.5 × 0.3–0.8 cm) and simple or dichotomous inflorescences of compact clusters of involucres containing white to rose flowers. Highly compact and dense mat-forming plants on rocky bluffs immediately next to the ocean were named var. crassifolium; those with yellow flowers were named var. lucidum. The inland form with thin leaf blades (1.5–3 × 0.3–0.8 cm) and highly-branched, cymose, white-flowered inflorescences is perhaps worthy of continued recognition as var. paynei, although there is no sharp distinction between the extremes. Several expressions of the seacliff wild buckwheat are in cultivation, and unfortunately the California Department of Transportation is using the species in roadside plantings, with the result that it is now established in Santa Clara County. Every effort should be made to halt its introduction beyond its native range.</p><!--
--><p>The species is the food plant for two federally endangered butterflies, the El Segundo dotted-blue (Euphilotes battoides allyni), near Los Angeles, and Smith’s dotted-blue (Euphilotes enoptes smithi), near Monterey.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eriogonum parvifolium
|authority=Smith in A. Rees
|rank=species
|parent rank=subgenus
|synonyms=Eriogonum parvifolium var. crassifolium;Eriogonum parvifolium subsp. lucidum;Eriogonum parvifolium var. lucidum;Eriogonum parvifolium subsp. paynei;Eriogonum parvifolium var. paynei
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Sandy beaches, dunes, and bluffs or sandy to gravelly inland slopes and flats, coastal grassland and chaparral communities, oak and pine woodlands
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. Rees, Cycl.
|publication year=1809
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_593.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum parvifolium
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