Ivesia gordonii |
Ivesia utahensis |
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alpine ivesia, alpine mousetail, Gordon's ivesia |
Utah ivesia, Utah mousetail |
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Habit | Plants green, ± tufted, sometimes rosetted; taproot stout, not fleshy. | Plants green, rosetted to tufted; taproot proximally enlarged, not fleshy. | ||||||||||||
Stems | prostrate to erect, (0.2–)0.5–4 dm. |
prostrate to ascending, 0.5–1.5(–2) dm. |
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Basal leaves | tightly to loosely cylindric, (1–)3–20(–25) cm; sheathing base ± glandular abaxially, otherwise glabrous; petiole 0.5–8 cm, hairs 0.2–0.5 mm; leaflets (6–)10–25 per side, (1–)2–13(–18) mm, glabrous or ± hirsute or villous, glandular-puberulent or -pubescent, lobes (2–)4–8(–15), linear or narrowly oblanceolate to obovate, apex rarely setose. |
± tightly cylindric, 2–7(–9) cm; sheathing base glabrous abaxially; petiole 0.5–2 cm, hairs 0.5–1 mm; leaflets 15–20 per side, 2–4 mm, glabrate or sparsely short-hirsute, sparsely to densely glandular, lobes (2–)3–8, narrowly oblanceolate to obovate, apex not setose. |
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Cauline leaves | 1(–2), not paired. |
(0–)1, not paired. |
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Inflorescences | 5–50(–70)-flowered, 1–8(–11) cm diam.; glomerules 1–several. |
(5–)10–30-flowered, 1–2.5(–5) cm diam.; glomerules 1–few. |
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Pedicels | 1–3(–5) mm. |
1–7 mm. |
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Flowers | 5–12 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets linear to narrowly elliptic, (0.5–)1–3.5(–4) mm; hypanthium turbinate to campanulate, (1.5–)2–4(–4.5) × 2–4(–5) mm; sepals (2–)2.5–5(–6) mm, obtuse to ± acute; petals yellow, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, (1–)1.5–3 mm; stamens 5, filaments 1.3–2.5 mm, anthers yellow, sometimes red-margined, 0.5–1 mm; carpels (1–)2–4(–6), styles 2.5–4.5(–6) mm. |
7–9 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets narrowly oblong to oval, 0.8–2 mm; hypanthium shallowly cupulate, (1–)1.5–2 × 2.5–3.5 mm; sepals (1.8–)2–3 mm, acute; petals white, sometimes pink-tinged, oblanceolate to spatulate, 1.8–3 mm; stamens 5, filaments 1.3–1.8 mm, anthers orangish to reddish brown, 0.4–0.6 mm; carpels (1–)2–4, styles 1.5–2 mm. |
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Achenes | grayish brown to mottled brown, ± 2 mm. |
yellowish green to light tan or gray-brown, 1.7–1.9 mm. |
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Ivesia gordonii |
Ivesia utahensis |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Talus slopes, bare ridges, in high-elevation sagebrush communities, subalpine to alpine conifer woodlands | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 3200–3700 m (10500–12100 ft) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY
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UT |
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). Ivesia gordonii is the most widespread species of the genus, occurring from Washington to Montana, south to central California and Colorado. The species can be distinguished from other members of sect. Ivesia by the relatively deep hypanthium, which is about as deep as wide. Four varieties are provisionally recognized here (B. Ertter and J. L. Reveal 2007), with the likelihood that future work may indicate additional and/or alternate circumscriptions. Populations that are difficult to assign to a variety can be found where the recognizable taxonomic units come together, for example, in northeastern Utah and western Wyoming, involving var. gordonii and var. wasatchensis, and in California and central Idaho where var. alpicola and var. ursinorum tend to merge. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Ivesia utahensis is known from the Wasatch and adjacent Uinta Mountains in northern Utah. The species stands as the white-petaled counterpart to the yellow-petaled Sierran I. lycopodioides, possibly indicating a common ancestral stock that was once more continuous across the Great Basin. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 233. | FNA vol. 9, p. 233. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Horkelia gordonii, Potentilla gordonii | Potentilla utahensis | ||||||||||||
Name authority | (Hooker) Torrey & A. Gray: in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep. 6(3): 72. (1858) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 371. (1882) | ||||||||||||
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