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

pine nut mountain mousetail, pine nut mountains ivesia

Ivesia longibracteata

Castle Crags ivesia, longbract mousetail

Habit Plants grayish green to silvery, sometimes reddish tinged; glands sparse. Plants green, ± tufted; taproot ± stout, not fleshy.
Stems

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

ascending to erect, 0.3–1.2 dm.

Basal leaves

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.

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.

Cauline leaves

2–5.

1–3, not paired.

Inflorescences

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

3–14-flowered, 1–2.5 cm diam.;

glomerules 1.

Pedicels

(3–)6–15(–22) mm.

1.5–6 mm.

Flowers

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.

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.

Achenes

light brown, 1.2–1.3 mm.

cream to light tan, 1.2–1.5 mm.

Ivesia pityocharis

Ivesia longibracteata

Phenology Flowering summer. Flowering summer.
Habitat Vernally saturated meadows, in sagebrush communities Dry crevices of granodioritic igneous rock, in mixed oak-conifer woodlands
Elevation 2100–2700 m (6900–8900 ft) 1200–1400 m (3900–4600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
NV
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

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.)

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.)

Source FNA vol. 9, p. 241. FNA vol. 9, p. 236.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Unguiculatae Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia
Sibling taxa
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
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
Name authority Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 241, fig. 6. (1989) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 233, fig. 1. (1989)
Web links