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intermountain ivesia, intermountain mousetail, Sevier ivesia, yellow comarella

Habit Plants ± grayish green.
Stems

ascending to erect, (1.8–)2–6(–6.5) dm.

Basal leaves

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.

Inflorescences

10–60-flowered, 4–15 cm diam.

Pedicels

(1–)5–20 mm.

Flowers

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

brown, 1.7–2.2 mm.

Ivesia sabulosa

Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Dry flats and slopes, on gravelly volcanic or limestone soil, in sagebrush and other desert shrub communities, montane conifer woodlands
Elevation 1500–2700 m (4900–8900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NV; UT
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Discussion

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. 244.
Parent taxa 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. 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 (M. E. Jones) D. D. Keck: Lloydia 1: 124. (1939)
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