Ivesia saxosa |
Ivesia arizonica |
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rock ivesia, rock mousetail |
purpusia, rock whitefeather |
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Habit | Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. | Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. | ||||
Stems | pendent or prostrate to ascending, 0.4–2.6(–3) dm. |
pendent or prostrate to ascending, (0.2–)0.5–1.6(–3) dm. |
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Basal leaves | 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. |
planar, 2–15(–20) cm; sheathing base usually not strigose abaxially; petiole 3–10 cm; lateral leaflets (2–)3–4(–5) per side, separate, broadly ovate or obovate to orbiculate, (2–)5–15(–18) mm, incised 1/4–3/4 to base into (3–)7–11 ± ovate teeth, apex not setose, surfaces ± sparsely short-pilose, ± glandular; terminal leaflets ± distinct. |
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Cauline leaves | 1–2(–4); blade well developed. |
1–3; blade well developed. |
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Inflorescences | (1–)3–30(–60)-flowered, open, (0.5–)2–8 cm diam. |
(1–)5–30(–150)-flowered, open, 0.5–14 cm diam. |
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Pedicels | (5–)10–30 mm. |
5–30 mm. |
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Flowers | 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. |
6–12 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 0(–3), lanceolate, 0.9–1.8 mm; hypanthium turbinate or campanulate, 1.5–3(–5) × 1–3(–4) mm; sepals 2–4(–5) mm, acute; petals yellow or white, oblanceolate to elliptic or obovate, (1.6–)2–4 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.8–1.3 mm, anthers ± yellow, oblong to narrowly ovate, 0.6–1.5 mm; carpels (2–)6–10(–13), atop a stipelike torus, styles 0.9–1.8 mm. |
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Achenes | greenish white to light tan, 1–1.8 mm, faintly rugose, ± carunculate. |
greenish white to light tan, 1.2–2 mm, faintly rugose, ± carunculate. |
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Ivesia saxosa |
Ivesia arizonica |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | 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 | 900–3300 m (3000–10800 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AZ; CA; NV; UT |
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Discussion | 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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Because the epithet saxosa was retained for Potentilla saxosa upon transfer to Ivesia, a different epithet (arizonica) was needed when Purpusia was likewise transferred in the same publication (B. Ertter 1989). The correct name for this species in Potentilla is P. osterhoutii (A. Nelson) J. T. Howell, due to the existence of P. arizonica. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 223. | FNA vol. 9, p. 224. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae | ||||
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Synonyms | Potentilla saxosa, P. acuminata, P. saxosa subsp. sierrae | Purpusia arizonica | ||||
Name authority | (Lemmon ex Greene) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 232. (1989) | (Eastwood ex J. T. Howell) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 233. (1989) | ||||
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