General:
Perennial herb from a stout, woody taproot and short, thick, usually partially subterranean stem-base, forming thick mats up to 30 cm wide; stems prostrate to ascending, simple, several, 5-20 cm tall/long, white-woolly.

Leaves:
Basal leaves linear to oblanceolate, usually white- or greyish-hairy beneath, grey to greenish above, the blades 3-7 cm long, the stalks up to 2 cm long; stem leaves lacking.

Flowers:
Inflorescence a simple umbel, subtended by 4-6 usually leaflike, sometimes reduced, bracts; flower stalks naked; involucres narrowly bell-shaped, hairy, 3-8 mm long, squared off at the tip or with 4-5 shallow, erect to slightly spreading lobes; perianths yellowish or rose-tinged with long, stalk-like bases, soft-hairy throughout, 3-6 mm long, deeply 6-lobed.

Fruits:
Achenes, 3-angled, slightly hairy above the middle, about 4 mm long.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.

Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Eriogonum flavum subsp. piperi (Greene) S. Stokes
Eriogonum flavum var. linguifolium Gandog.
Eriogonum piperi Greene