Ivesia argyrocoma |
Ivesia webberi |
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silver-hair ivesia, silverhair mousetail |
Webber's ivesia, wire ivesia, wire mousetail |
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Habit | Plants ± green, ± rosetted; taproot slender to ± stout, not fleshy. | |
Stems | decumbent to ascending, 0.5–1.5(–1.8) dm. |
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Basal leaves | loosely ± cylindric, 3–7(–10) cm; sheathing base ± strigose abaxially; petiole 0.5–5(–6) cm, hairs 2–4 mm; leaflets 4–8(–10) per side, (0.5–)3–8(–10) mm, loosely long-strigose or -villous and short-hirsute, ± glandular, lobes 2–5(–12), linear to lanceolate, apex not setose. |
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Cauline leaves | 2, paired. |
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Inflorescences | 5–15(–25)-flowered, 1.5–3(–6) cm diam.; glomerules 1. |
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Pedicels | (0.5–)1–8(–13) mm. |
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Flowers | 9–12 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets linear, 1.2–3 mm; hypanthium cupulate, 1–2(–2.5) × 2.5–5 mm; sepals 2.5–4.5(–5.5) mm, acute; petals yellow, narrowly oblanceolate, 2–3(–4) mm; stamens 5, filaments 1.8–2.5(–3) mm, anthers yellow, (0.8–)1–1.6 mm; carpels 3–8, styles 1.8–2.2 mm. |
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Achenes | light brown, often mottled darker brown, 1.9–2.5 mm. |
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Ivesia argyrocoma |
Ivesia webberi |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | |
Habitat | Dry flats and slopes, in sagebrush communities, conifer woodlands | |
Elevation | (1300–)1500–1900 m ((4300–)4900–6200 ft) | |
Distribution |
CA; nw Mexico
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CA; NV |
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.) |
Of conservation concern. Ivesia webberi is known only from the eastern foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada and scattered ranges to the east in California and adjacent Nevada. It is among the more distinctive species in the genus and is only tentatively placed in sect. Ivesia. The leaflets are loosely incised into slender, sparsely villous segments, and the two cauline leaves are paired with dissected stipules. Previous reports of the stems and inflorescence branches being glandular-puberulent are due to a misinterpretation of the minute pustulose bases associated with the villous indumentum as being enlarged glands. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 242. | FNA vol. 9, p. 236. |
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Unguiculatae | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia |
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Synonyms | Horkelia argyrocoma, Potentilla argyrocoma | Potentilla webberi |
Name authority | (Rydberg) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 284. (1908) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 10: 71. (1874) |
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