The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links
Ivesia longibracteata

Castle Crags ivesia, longbract mousetail

intermountain ivesia, intermountain mousetail, Sevier ivesia, yellow comarella

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.

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

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
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
AZ; NV; UT
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
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
Sibling taxa
I. aperta, I. argyrocoma, I. arizonica, I. baileyi, I. callida, I. campestris, I. cryptocaulis, I. gordonii, I. jaegeri, I. kingii, 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. pityocharis, I. pygmaea, I. rhypara, I. santolinoides, I. saxosa, I. sericoleuca, I. setosa, I. shockleyi, I. tweedyi, I. unguiculata, I. utahensis, I. webberi
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)
Web links