Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ivesia setosa (S. Wats.) Rydberg
Ivesia Baileyi setosa S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 91. 1871.
Horkelia Baileyi setosa Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2 : 154. 1898.
Perennial, with athick taproot and short cespitose caudex ; stems several, ascending, erect or decumbent at the base, 1-1.5 dm. high, glandular-puberulent, few-leaved ; stipules of the basal leaves subulate, of the stem-leaves o-»ate, more or less toothed ; basal leaves numerous, 1-1.5 cm. long, pinnate, with 7-10 pairs of leaflets, which are cuneate or flabelliform, 5-8 mm. long, rather thick, glandular-puberulent, divided to near the base into oblong or oblanceolate divisions, usually terminated by bristles; stem-leaves similar but with fewer leaflets; inflorescence rather open, cymose, usually with recurved pedicels in fruit; hypanthium 3-4 mm. broad, glandular-puberulent, saucershaped, in fruit 5-angled ; bractlets linear to elliptic, about two-thirds as long as the triangular-ovate sepals, which are about 3 mm. long; petals spatulate, about equaling the sepals; stamens 5, with short filaments, inclined towards the few pistils. "
Type locality : Fremont's Pass, East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada. Distribution : Nevada.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
