Ivesia baileyi

Bailey's ivesia

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Bailey's ivesia is a California native perennial found in rocky mountain and alpine habitats at elevations typically above 2,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces small white to pale yellow flowers approximately 4 to 8 millimeters wide in open clusters of 5 to 40 blossoms. Growing in distinctive green rosettes or hanging clumps with stems 5 to 20 centimeters tall, it forms compact, low-growing clusters. Its compound leaves feature 2 to 6 leaflets on each side, each leaflet approximately 4 to 10 millimeters long and round with teeth extending less than halfway to the base. The delicate flowers have S-shaped pedicels in fruit, with pale, small fruits about 1.5 millimeters long.

California counties: Plumas, Lassen

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.