Ivesia campestris |
Ivesia lycopodioides |
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field ivesia, field mousetail, Kaweah ivesia |
club-moss ivesia, clubmoss mousetail |
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Habit | Plants green to grayish; glands sparse. | Plants green, usually rosetted, sometimes ± tufted; taproot fusiform, fleshy. | ||||||||
Stems | decumbent to ascending, 1–3.5 dm. |
decumbent to erect, 0.3–3 dm. |
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Basal leaves | (3–)5–15(–18) cm; sheathing base glabrous or sparsely strigose abaxially; stipules ± lanceolate, 2.5–5 mm; petiole (0.3–)0.5–6(–8) cm, hairs sparse to abundant, appressed-ascending, 1–2 mm; leaflets 15–20 per side, loosely overlapping, 2–10 mm, lobes 2–5, oblanceolate, hairs sparse to abundant, spreading to ascending, 1–2 mm. |
tightly to loosely cylindric, 1–15 cm; sheathing base glabrous abaxially; petiole 0.5–4 cm, hairs 0.2–1 mm; leaflets 10–35 per side, 1–8 mm, glabrous or short-hirsute, minutely glandular, lobes (2–)4–8(–10), linear to obovate or ± orbiculate, apex sometimes setose. |
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Cauline leaves | 3–4. |
0–2(–3), not paired. |
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Inflorescences | 5–20(–40)-flowered, (1–)1.5–2.5(–4) cm diam., flowers arranged in 1–few ± tight glomerules of 10–15 flowers. |
3–20(–25)-flowered, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3.5) cm diam.; glomerules usually 1. |
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Pedicels | 1–4 mm. |
(0.5–)1–7(–11) mm. |
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Flowers | 7–10 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets linear to oblong, 1–2(–2.5) mm; hypanthium campanulate, 1–2 × 2.5–4 mm, ± 1/2 as deep as wide; sepals green, 2–3(–3.5) mm, acute; petals 4(–5), light yellow, oblanceolate to spatulate or narrowly obovate, 3–4 mm; stamens 12–16 (4-merous flowers) or 16–20 (5-merous flowers), filaments filiform, 0.6–1.1 mm, anthers yellowish, 0.3–0.5 mm; carpels 4–20, styles 1.4–2 mm. |
6–12 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets oblong to oval, 0.8–2.5(–3) mm; hypanthium shallowly cupulate, 1–2 × 2.5–5 mm; sepals (1.8–)2–4(–4.5) mm, obtuse to acute; petals golden yellow, obovate, 2–5 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.8–2 mm, anthers yellow, 0.6–0.8 mm; carpels (5–)8–15(–18), styles 1–3 mm. |
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Achenes | light brown, 1–1.5 mm. |
greenish tan to light brown, 1.2–1.5 mm. |
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Ivesia campestris |
Ivesia lycopodioides |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Moist meadows and slopes, in montane to subalpine conifer woodlands | |||||||||
Elevation | 2200–3400 m (7200–11200 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA; NV
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Discussion | Ivesia campestris is found in the southern Sierra Nevada south of the Kings River, where it replaces I. unguiculata and often occurs at higher elevations. Ivesia campestris is the only member of the genus that commonly has 4-merous flowers. It is sometimes misidentified as I. unguiculata, especially when the pale yellow petals have faded to creamy white; the glomerules of the inflorescences tend to be yellowish green to green rather than purplish. Also, the anthers of I. campestris are yellowish, rather than maroon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). The three varieties of Ivesia lycopodioides are for the most part readily distinguished, though intergradation is known. The high-elevation var. lycopodioides extends farthest north; var. scandularis is the only variety in the White Mountains. Variety megalopetala is found mostly at somewhat lower (subalpine) elevations and generally has a more southern range. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 242. | FNA vol. 9, p. 232. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Unguiculatae | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Potentilla utahensis var. campestris, P. campestris | Potentilla lycopodioides | ||||||||
Name authority | (M. E. Jones) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 285. (1908) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 530. (1865) | ||||||||
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