Ivesia lycopodioides |
Ivesia muirii |
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club-moss ivesia, clubmoss mousetail |
granite mousetail, Muir's ivesia |
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Habit | Plants green, usually rosetted, sometimes ± tufted; taproot fusiform, fleshy. | Plants silvery, usually ± rosetted; taproot stout, sometimes fleshy. | ||||||||
Stems | decumbent to erect, 0.3–3 dm. |
usually ± erect, sometimes nearly prostrate, 0.5–1.5(–2) dm. |
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Basal leaves | tightly to loosely cylindric, 1–15 cm; sheathing base glabrous abaxially; petiole 0.5–4 cm, hairs 0.2–1 mm; leaflets 10–35 per side, 1–8 mm, glabrous or short-hirsute, minutely glandular, lobes (2–)4–8(–10), linear to obovate or ± orbiculate, apex sometimes setose. |
very tightly cylindric (mousetail-like, with individual leaflets scarcely distinguishable), 2–5(–10) cm; sheathing base densely strigose abaxially; petiole 0.2–0.8(–1) cm, hairs 0.5–1.5 mm; leaflets 25–40 per side, 0.4–1 mm, densely sericeous, glands obscured, lobes 2–5, obovate or oval to orbiculate, apex not setose. |
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Cauline leaves | 0–2(–3), not paired. |
(0–)1–2, paired if 2. |
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Inflorescences | 3–20(–25)-flowered, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3.5) cm diam.; glomerules usually 1. |
10–30-flowered, 1–2(–3.5) cm diam.; glomerules usually 1. |
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Pedicels | (0.5–)1–7(–11) mm. |
0.3–2(–3.5) mm. |
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Flowers | 6–12 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets oblong to oval, 0.8–2.5(–3) mm; hypanthium shallowly cupulate, 1–2 × 2.5–5 mm; sepals (1.8–)2–4(–4.5) mm, obtuse to acute; petals golden yellow, obovate, 2–5 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.8–2 mm, anthers yellow, 0.6–0.8 mm; carpels (5–)8–15(–18), styles 1–3 mm. |
5–6 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets oblong to obovate, 0.5–1 mm; hypanthium shallowly cupulate, 0.5–1(–1.5) × 1.5–2.5 mm; sepals (1–)1.5–2.5 mm, acute; petals yellow, linear to oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, 1–2 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.3–0.6 mm, anthers yellow, 0.4–0.6 mm; carpels 1–4, styles 0.7–1.2 mm. |
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Achenes | greenish tan to light brown, 1.2–1.5 mm. |
grayish brown, mottled with red, 1.6–2 mm. |
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Ivesia lycopodioides |
Ivesia muirii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry rocky slopes, fellfields, mostly in alpine conifer woodlands and tundra | |||||||||
Elevation | 2900–4000 m (9500–13100 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
CA; NV
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CA
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). The three varieties of Ivesia lycopodioides are for the most part readily distinguished, though intergradation is known. The high-elevation var. lycopodioides extends farthest north; var. scandularis is the only variety in the White Mountains. Variety megalopetala is found mostly at somewhat lower (subalpine) elevations and generally has a more southern range. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ivesia muirii is known from alpine areas in the Sierra Nevada. It is one of the more distinctive species of the genus, in its silvery mousetail-like leaves and usually tightly capitate inflorescences. Putative hybrids are known with I. lycopodioides (D. D. Keck 1938) and I. pygmaea (Center Basin area of Tulare County). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 232. | FNA vol. 9, p. 236. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Potentilla lycopodioides | Potentilla muirii | ||||||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 530. (1865) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 8: 627. (1873) | ||||||||
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