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Jaeger's ivesia, Jaeger's mousetail

Habit Plants green, ± tufted to ± matted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted.
Stems

pendent or prostrate to ascending, 0.3–1.5 dm.

Basal leaves

± loosely cylindric to weakly planar, 2–8(–10) cm; sheathing base not or sparsely strigose abaxially;

petiole 0.5–4 cm;

lateral leaflets (1–)4–6(–8) per side, ± overlapping at least distally, ± flabellate, 2–6(–7) mm, incised nearly to base into 3–6 oblanceolate to narrowly obovate lobes, apex not or scarcely setose, surfaces ± sparsely short-pilose, ± glandular;

terminal leaflets indistinct.

Cauline leaves

(1–)2;

blade well developed.

Inflorescences

(1–)3–15-flowered, open, (0.5–)1.5–4(–7) cm diam.

Pedicels

5–30 mm.

Flowers

5–11 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets 5, lanceolate, 1–2 mm;

hypanthium patelliform, 1 × 2–4 mm;

sepals 2–3 mm, ± acute;

petals yellow, narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5–2 mm;

stamens 20, filaments 1–1.5(–1.8) mm, anthers yellow, subrotund, 0.2–0.3 mm;

carpels 3–8, styles 1.5–2 mm.

Achenes

tan to light brown, 1–2 mm, ± rugose, ± carunculate.

Ivesia jaegeri

Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Dry, rocky outcrops of limestone origin, usually crevices of more or less vertical protected cliffs or boulders, mainly in conifer woodlands
Elevation 1600–3600 m (5200–11800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Ivesia jaegeri is known only from the Spring Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, and the Clark Mountains, San Bernardino County, California.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 9, p. 223.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae
Sibling taxa
I. aperta, I. argyrocoma, I. arizonica, I. baileyi, I. callida, I. campestris, I. cryptocaulis, I. gordonii, I. kingii, I. longibracteata, I. lycopodioides, I. muirii, I. multifoliolata, I. paniculata, I. patellifera, I. pickeringii, I. pityocharis, I. pygmaea, I. rhypara, I. sabulosa, I. santolinoides, I. saxosa, I. sericoleuca, I. setosa, I. shockleyi, I. tweedyi, I. unguiculata, I. utahensis, I. webberi
Synonyms Potentilla jaegeri
Name authority Munz & I. M. Johnston: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 56: 165. (1929)
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