Rock cinquefoil

Description

Ivesia saxosa-is a species of flowering plant in the-rose family-known by the common name-rock mousetail, or-rock ivesia. It is native to the mountains and deserts of central and southern-California-and northern-Baja California, where it grows in cracks and crevices in rock faces and slopes. This is a clumpy perennial herb with hanging leaves and stems. Each leaf is a flat strip or cluster of rounded, lobed leaflets. The green to reddish stem is up to 30 centimeters long and bears an-inflorescence-of clustered flowers. Each flower is almost a centimeter wide and has hairy pointed-sepals-and smaller rounded to spoon-shaped yellow petals. In the center of the flower are up to 40-stamens-and many-pistils. The fruit is a tiny pale-achene.