Ivesia pityocharis |
Ivesia saxosa |
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pine nut mountain mousetail, pine nut mountains ivesia |
rock ivesia, rock mousetail |
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Habit | Plants grayish green to silvery, sometimes reddish tinged; glands sparse. | Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. |
Stems | prostrate-decumbent to ascending, 0.5–2(–3) dm. |
pendent or prostrate to ascending, 0.4–2.6(–3) 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. |
planar, 2–15 cm; sheathing base not strigose abaxially; petiole 3–9 cm; lateral leaflets (1–)2–4(–7) per side, separate to slightly overlapping, obovate to orbiculate or flabellate, (3–)5–15(–22) mm, incised 1/4–3/4 to base into 5–15 broadly ovate teeth or oblanceolate lobes, sometimes also medially split to base (Kern Plateau), apex not setose, surfaces ± sparsely short-pilose, prominently glandular; terminal leaflets ± distinct. |
Cauline leaves | 2–5. |
1–2(–4); blade well developed. |
Inflorescences | (7–)15–50-flowered, 2–8 cm diam., flowers arranged individually and/or in several to many loose few-flowered glomerules. |
(1–)3–30(–60)-flowered, open, (0.5–)2–8 cm diam. |
Pedicels | (3–)6–15(–22) mm. |
(5–)10–30 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. |
6–12 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 5, broadly lanceolate to oblong, 1–2.5 mm; hypanthium patelliform, 0.5–1.5 × 2–4(–4.5) mm; sepals 2–4.5 mm, acute; petals yellow, oblanceolate to obovate, (1.5–)2–4 mm; stamens 15–35(–40), filaments 0.3–1 mm, anthers yellow, subrotund, 0.2–0.3(–0.5) mm; carpels (3–)10–20(–40), styles 1–2 mm. |
Achenes | light brown, 1.2–1.3 mm. |
greenish white to light tan, 1–1.8 mm, faintly rugose, ± carunculate. |
Ivesia pityocharis |
Ivesia saxosa |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late spring–summer. |
Habitat | Vernally saturated meadows, in sagebrush communities | Dry, rocky outcrops of granitic or volcanic origin, usually crevices of more or less vertical protected cliffs or boulders, mainly in oak and conifer woodlands |
Elevation | 2100–2700 m (6900–8900 ft) | 900–3300 m (3000–10800 ft) |
Distribution |
NV |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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.) |
Ivesia saxosa is encountered in the foothills and mountains of southeastern California from the White Mountains and adjacent eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada of Mono County to the Transverse Ranges (including the Little San Bernardino Mountains) of Kern and San Bernardino counties. Populations on the Kern Plateau tend to have more dissected leaflets and may deserve recognition as a distinct variety. On the Peninsular Ranges, I. saxosa occurs in Riverside and San Diego counties and into northern Baja California, Mexico, as far south as the western slopes of the Sierra Juárez and Sierra San Pedro Mártir. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 241. | FNA vol. 9, p. 223. |
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Synonyms | Potentilla saxosa, P. acuminata, P. saxosa subsp. sierrae | |
Name authority | Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 241, fig. 6. (1989) | (Lemmon ex Greene) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 232. (1989) |
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