Ivesia argyrocoma |
Ivesia baileyi |
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silver-hair ivesia, silverhair mousetail |
Bailey's ivesia, Owyhee ivesia |
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Habit | Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. | |||||
Stems | pendent or prostrate to ascending, 0.5–2(–2.5) dm. |
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Basal leaves | planar, 3–12(–18) cm; sheathing base not or sparsely strigose abaxially; petiole 1–8 cm; lateral leaflets 2–6(–10) per side, separate to slightly overlapping distally, ovate or obovate to flabellate, 4–15(–25) mm, incised 1/4–3/4 to base into 3–11(–15) ovate to oblanceolate teeth or lobes, apex not setose, surfaces ± sparsely short-pilose or hirsute, ± glandular; terminal leaflets ± distinct. |
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Cauline leaves | 1–2; blade reduced. |
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Inflorescences | (1–)5–40-flowered, open, (1–)1.5–8(–10) cm diam. |
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Pedicels | 2–15(–30) mm. |
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Flowers | 4–10 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 5, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, 0.8–2.5 mm; hypanthium patelliform, 0.5–2 × 2–4 mm; sepals (1.2–)1.5–4 mm, acute; petals white or pale yellow, oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, 1.5–2.5 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.5–1.1 mm, anthers yellow, sometimes with reddish margins, oblong, 0.4–0.7 mm; carpels (1–)3–8, styles 0.9–1.8 mm. |
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Achenes | greenish white to light tan, 1.5–2 mm, smooth or rugose, ± carunculate. |
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Ivesia argyrocoma |
Ivesia baileyi |
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Distribution |
CA; nw Mexico
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CA; ID; NV; OR
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (1 in the flora). Plants from the central Sierra San Pedro Mártir in northern Baja California belong to var. moranii Ertter & Reveal, which may be distinguished by its compact stature (to 0.5 dm), densely villous basal stipules 2–4 mm, decumbent stems 2–7 cm that are stipitate-glandular under the villous indumentum, and solitary, loosely congested cyme. The petals are oblanceolate to narrowly obovate and 2.5–3.5 mm. The grayish, faintly mottled achenes are 1.3–2 mm. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The two varieties accepted here were not recognized by D. D. Keck (1938), who instead treated Ivesia setosa as a variety of I. baileyi. Field investigations confirm that the three entities are reasonably distinct morphologically, with intergradation where their otherwise distinct ranges overlap in central Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 242. | FNA vol. 9, p. 226. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Unguiculatae | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae | ||||
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Synonyms | Horkelia argyrocoma, Potentilla argyrocoma | Potentilla baileyi | ||||
Name authority | (Rydberg) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 284. (1908) | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 90. (1871) | ||||
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