Potentilla webberi
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Potentilla |
| Species: | P. webberi
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| Binomial name | |
| Potentilla webberi (Gray) Greene
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Potentilla webberi, commonly known as wire mousetail and Webber's ivesia, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family.[1] It is native to the United States, where it occurs in the northernmost part of the Sierra Nevada and the adjacent Modoc Plateau in California, its range extending just into Nevada.[2]
Description
[edit]Potentilla webberi is a small perennial herb forming a clump on the ground in the clay soil of the local sage scrub. Each leaf is up to 7 centimeters long and is made up of several hairy, lance-shaped green leaflets each 3 to 10 millimeters long. The red to reddish-green stems are generally not erect and are up to 15 centimeters long on the ground or drooping over it. A stem bears an inflorescence made up of a single cluster of several flowers. Each flower is about a centimeter wide with five triangular to lance-shaped greenish sepals and five bright yellow petals. In the center of the flower are five stamens and usually five pistils.
References
[edit]- ^ "Potentilla webberi (A.Gray) Greene | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 2024-06-13.
- ^ Ivesia webberi. NatureServe. 2012.
External links
[edit]- The Jepson Manual, Jepson eFlora, 2012 — Ivesia webberi.
- Center for Plant Conservation: Ivesia webberi. — 2012.
- California Native Plant Society: Ivesia webberi — Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California.
- Ivesia webberi — CalPhotos
Media related to Ivesia webberi at Wikimedia Commons
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