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Jaeger's ivesia, Jaeger's mousetail

pine nut mountain mousetail, pine nut mountains ivesia

Habit Plants green, ± tufted to ± matted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. Plants grayish green to silvery, sometimes reddish tinged; glands sparse.
Stems

pendent or prostrate to ascending, 0.3–1.5 dm.

prostrate-decumbent to ascending, 0.5–2(–3) 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.

6–12(–15) cm; sheathing base weakly strigose abaxially;

stipules absent;

petiole (1–)1.5–2.5(–3) cm, hairs abundant, ascending to spreading, 1–4 mm;

leaflets 15–25 per side, loosely overlapping, (1.5–)2–7 mm, lobes 0–4(–6), lanceolate or oblanceolate to elliptic, hairs abundant, spreading to ascending, 1–3 mm.

Cauline leaves

(1–)2;

blade well developed.

2–5.

Inflorescences

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

(7–)15–50-flowered, 2–8 cm diam., flowers arranged individually and/or in several to many loose few-flowered glomerules.

Pedicels

5–30 mm.

(3–)6–15(–22) 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.

8–13 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets lanceolate to elliptic, 2–3 mm;

hypanthium patelliform to shallowly cupulate, 1.5–2.5 × 3–4.5 mm, ± 1/2 as deep as wide;

sepals often purple-suffused, 2.3–4(–5) mm, acute;

petals white, broadly spatulate or obovate to orbiculate, (2.8–)3–5(–6) mm;

stamens 20, filaments filiform, (1–)1.5–3 mm, anthers light pink, 0.3–0.5 mm;

carpels 8–20, styles 2.2–3 mm.

Achenes

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

light brown, 1.2–1.3 mm.

Ivesia jaegeri

Ivesia pityocharis

Phenology Flowering summer. Flowering summer.
Habitat Dry, rocky outcrops of limestone origin, usually crevices of more or less vertical protected cliffs or boulders, mainly in conifer woodlands Vernally saturated meadows, in sagebrush communities
Elevation 1600–3600 m (5200–11800 ft) 2100–2700 m (6900–8900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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from FNA
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.)

Of conservation concern.

Ivesia pityocharis is known only from the Pine Nut Mountains, Douglas County. Plants are somewhat intermediate between those of I. kingii and I. sericoleuca in having relatively shallow hypanthia and loosely sericeous vestiture. Hairs on petioles and stem bases of I. pityocharis are to 4 mm; those of I. kingii are 1 mm and generally appressed-ascending.

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

Source FNA vol. 9, p. 223. FNA vol. 9, p. 241.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Unguiculatae
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
I. aperta, I. argyrocoma, I. arizonica, I. baileyi, I. callida, I. campestris, I. cryptocaulis, I. gordonii, I. jaegeri, I. kingii, I. longibracteata, I. lycopodioides, I. muirii, I. multifoliolata, I. paniculata, I. patellifera, I. pickeringii, 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) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 241, fig. 6. (1989)
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