Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ivesia scandularis Rydberg
Horkelia scandularis Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2 : 150. 1898.
Ivesia pygmaea S. Wats.; Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2 : 150, as a synonym. 1898.
Cespitose perennial, with a thick woody root ; stems several, less than 1 dm. high, decumbent, slightly glandular-puberulent, nearly leafless ; basal leaves numerous, 2-5 dm. long, pinnate with numerous crowded and somewhat imbricate leaflets, glandular-puberulent, light green, often yellowish ; leaflets about 2 mm. long, divide to the base into thick oblong segments ; cyme corymbiform ; hypanthium cupulate or almost saucer-shaped, in fruit 4 mm. in diameter ; bractlets oblong, about half the length of the ovate sepals ; petals obovate, a little exceeding the sepals; stamens 5, nearly equaling the sepals; pistils 5-10.
Type LOCALITY : White Mountains, California. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- 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
