Ivesia sabulosa |
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intermountain ivesia, intermountain mousetail, Sevier ivesia, yellow comarella |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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Synonyms | Potentilla sabulosa, Comarella sabulosa |
Name authority | (M. E. Jones) D. D. Keck: Lloydia 1: 124. (1939) |
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