Silky Mousetail

Description

Ivesia pickeringii-is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the-rose family-known by the common names-silky mousetail-and-Pickering's ivesia. It is-endemic-to the-Klamath Mountains-of northern-California-where it is a plant of mountain meadows, often on-serpentine soils. This is a perennial herb forming tufts of long, erect leaves and thin, naked stems. Each leaf is a taillike strip of overlapping lobed leaflets. The reddish to greenish stems reach 30 to 50 centimeters in height and bear-inflorescences-of clustered flowers. The stems, leaves, and-inflorescences-are all covered in fuzzy white to gray hairs. Each flower is about a centimeter wide, with pinkish-green triangular-sepals-and longer, narrower pink or purple petals. In the center of the flower are 20-stamens-and a few-pistils.