Ivesia kingii

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Ivesia kingii
var. eremica

Vulnerable  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Ivesia
Species:
I. kingii
Binomial name
Ivesia kingii
Synonyms

Potentilla kingii (S.Watson) Greene

Ivesia kingii, sometimes reclassified as Potentilla kingii, is a species of flowering plant known by the common name King's mousetail.

It is native to the southwestern United States, where it is known from eastern California, Nevada, and Utah.

One variety of this species, var. eremica, is endemic to Ash Meadows in the Amargosa Desert, in Nye County, Nevada, on the California-Nevada border.[1] It is federally listed as a threatened species of the United States.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Ivesia kingii. The Nature Conservancy.
  2. ^ USFWS. var. eremica. Species Profile.

External links[edit]

Media related to Potentilla kingii at Wikimedia Commons