Protologue Description: Eriogonum reliquum Stkes, spec. nov. Ad E. niveum et E. vimineum affine, perenne, album; inflorescentiis virgatis; sepalis obovatis.
Low pewrennial, base woody, decumbent, rather loosely branched, 2-3 dm. tall, white-tomentose throughout except the flowers; leaves broadly ovate 2-3 cm. long, closely tomentose, petiole 1-2.5 cm. long; lower bracts foliaceous; branching rather strict, the involucres appressed to the stems, about 2.5-3 mm. long, slightly campanulate; flowers narrow at base, pale yellow to white with dark vein, 3 mm. long, outer segments obovate, glabrous.
Type: No. 248453, Herb. Calif. Acad. Sci., collected by I.W. Clokey, No. 7491, August. 9, 1937, on a gravelly brushy wash in the yellow pine belt, 2270 m., Charleston Park, Charleston Mts., Clark County, Nevada. No. 5444 was collected at the same locality on August 7, 1935.