Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ivesia campestris (M. E. Jones) Rydberg
Potentilla utahensis campestris M. E. Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 5 : 679. 1895. Ivesia utahensis campestris M. E. Jones, Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 5 : 679. 1895. Horkelia campestris Rydb. Mem. Dep. Bot. Columbia Univ. 2 : 147. 1898.
Perennial, with a rather slender root ; stems several, decumbent or prostrate, more or less tinged with red, somewhat silky-villous, less than 2 dm. long ; stipules lanceolate ; basal leaves numerous, less than 5 cm. long, pinnate, with many rather approximate leaflets, more or less silky-hirsute ; leaflets about 5 mm. long, divided to the base into linear-oblong segments ; stem-leaves few and smaller ; cyme branched, the branches with subcapitate clusters ; hypanthium cupulate or saucer-shaped, nearly glabrous ; bractlets linear, much smaller than the lanceolatetriangular sepals, which are 2 mm. long ; petals yellow, spatulate, a little exceeding the sepals ; stamens 20 ; filaments filiform, rather short.
Type locality : Whitney Meadows, Sierra Nevada 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
