Ivesia longibracteata |
Ivesia sabulosa |
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Castle Crags ivesia, longbract mousetail |
intermountain ivesia, intermountain mousetail, Sevier ivesia, yellow comarella |
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Habit | Plants green, ± tufted; taproot ± stout, not fleshy. | Plants ± grayish green. |
Stems | ascending to erect, 0.3–1.2 dm. |
ascending to erect, (1.8–)2–6(–6.5) dm. |
Basal leaves | weakly planar to loosely ± cylindric, (0.5–)2–4(–6) cm; sheathing base glandular abaxially, otherwise glabrous; petiole 0.5–2 cm, hairs 0.2–1 mm; leaflets 5–6 per side, 2–6 mm, ± short-hirsute, glandular-puberulent, lobes 2–7, oblanceolate to spatulate or obovate, apex not setose. |
7–25(–30) cm; sheathing base usually sparsely strigose abaxially; petiole 1–4(–5) cm; leaflets 15–40 per side, ± flabellate, 3–14 mm, usually incised to base into 2–3 oblanceolate lobes, ± densely short-hirsute to -villous. |
Cauline leaves | 1–3, not paired. |
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Inflorescences | 3–14-flowered, 1–2.5 cm diam.; glomerules 1. |
10–60-flowered, 4–15 cm diam. |
Pedicels | 1.5–6 mm. |
(1–)5–20 mm. |
Flowers | 8–10 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets linear to narrowly lanceolate or elliptic, 2.5–5 mm, longer than sepals; hypanthium shallowly cupulate, 0.5–1 × 2–3 mm; sepals 1.5–2.5 mm, ± acute; petals pale yellow, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5–2.5 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.7–1.3 mm, anthers yellow, 0.5–0.8 mm; carpels 6–11, styles 1–1.5 mm. |
9–14 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets lanceolate, 1–3(–3.3) mm; hypanthium interior golden, 1–2 × 3–5 mm; sepals (2.5–)3.5–6 mm, base golden adaxially, apex acute to acuminate; petals yellow, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 2–4 mm; stamens 5, filaments 2–4 mm, anthers yellow, sometimes red-rimmed, oblong, 0.6–1.2 mm; carpels 1–5, styles 2–3 mm. |
Achenes | cream to light tan, 1.2–1.5 mm. |
brown, 1.7–2.2 mm. |
Ivesia longibracteata |
Ivesia sabulosa |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Dry crevices of granodioritic igneous rock, in mixed oak-conifer woodlands | Dry flats and slopes, on gravelly volcanic or limestone soil, in sagebrush and other desert shrub communities, montane conifer woodlands |
Elevation | 1200–1400 m (3900–4600 ft) | 1500–2700 m (4900–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA |
AZ; NV; UT
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Ivesia longibracteata is known only from the Castle Crags area of Shasta County. The epithet alludes to a diagnostic characteristic unique in the genus: the epicalyx bractlets are longer than the sepals. The plants grow on vertical rock faces, a habitat more characteristic of sect. Setosae; however, the stems are ascending to erect and do not form hanging clumps, and the pedicels are not curved in fruit. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Ivesia sabulosa occurs from central Nevada and southwestern Utah south to Arizona north of the Grand Canyon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 236. | FNA vol. 9, p. 244. |
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Comarella |
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Synonyms | Potentilla sabulosa, Comarella sabulosa | |
Name authority | Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 233, fig. 1. (1989) | (M. E. Jones) D. D. Keck: Lloydia 1: 124. (1939) |
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