Ivesia patellifera |
Ivesia santolinoides |
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Kingston Mountain mousetail, Kingston Mountains. ivesia |
mouse tail ivesia, Sierra mousetail, silver mousetail, stellariopsis |
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Habit | Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. | Plants ± grayish to silvery. |
Stems | pendent or prostrate to ascending, (0.5–)1–2 dm. |
ascending to erect, (1–)1.5–4 dm. |
Basal leaves | planar, (2–)5–15 cm; sheathing base not strigose abaxially; petiole 1–5 cm; lateral leaflets (1–)2–3(–4) per side, separate, obovate to orbiculate, 5–20 mm, incised 1/4–1/2 to base into 5–9 broadly ovate teeth, apex not setose, surfaces short-pilose, ± glandular; terminal leaflets distinct. |
mousetail-like (individual leaflets scarcely distinguishable), 3–10 cm; sheathing base densely strigose abaxially; petiole 0.5–1.5 cm; leaflets 60–80 per side, 0.6–1.5 mm, lobes (0–)3–5, obovate to oval, densely villous. |
Cauline leaves | (0–)2; blade well developed. |
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Inflorescences | (1–)3–20(–35)-flowered, open, (0.5–)1.5–4(–6) cm diam. |
(10–)30–200-flowered, 3–8(–30) cm diam. |
Pedicels | 5–20(–30) mm. |
5–30 mm. |
Flowers | 7–10 cm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 0; hypanthium patelliform, 0.5(–1) × 2–3 mm; sepals 2–4 mm, broadly acute; petals yellow, narrowly oblanceolate, 2–3 mm; stamens 5–10, filaments 0.6–1.2(–1.5) mm, anthers yellow, oblong, 0.8–1 mm; carpels 4–10, styles 1.5–2 mm. |
5–8 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets oblong to broadly ovate or orbiculate, 0.2–0.5 mm; hypanthium 0.5–1.5 × 2–3 mm; sepals 1–2 mm, apex obtuse to acute; petals white, broadly obovate to orbiculate, 2–2.5 mm; stamens 15, filaments 1.2–1.8 mm, anthers purple, broadly obcordate to pouch-shaped, 0.3–0.4 mm; carpels 1, styles 2–3 mm. |
Achenes | greenish white to light tan, 1.5–2 mm, faintly rugose, ± carunculate. |
mottled grayish brown, 1.7–2 mm. |
2n | = 28. |
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Ivesia patellifera |
Ivesia santolinoides |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Dry, rocky outcrops of limestone, usually crevices of more or less vertical protected cliffs or boulders, in conifer woodlands | Dry sandy granitic soil, decomposed granite accumulations, ledges and outcrops, in montane and subalpine conifer woodlands |
Elevation | 1400–2200 m (4600–7200 ft) | 1500–3600 m (4900–11800 ft) |
Distribution |
CA |
CA
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Ivesia patellifera is confined to crevices in steep wash and canyon walls in the Kingston Mountains of San Bernardino County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ivesia santolinoides is found on loose granitic substrates in the Sierra Nevada, Transverse Ranges, and San Jacinto Mountains from El Dorado to Riverside counties. The species is easily recognized by its silvery mousetail-like leaves and erect, diffuse inflorescences with small, plumlike flowers. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 224. | FNA vol. 9, p. 246. |
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Synonyms | Potentilla patellifera | Potentilla santolinoides, Stellariopsis santolinoides |
Name authority | (J. T. Howell) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 232. (1989) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 531. (1865) |
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