Ivesia callida

Tahquitz ivesia, Tahquitz Ivesia

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.3

Tahquitz ivesia is a rare (CNPS 1B.3) California native perennial found in the San Jacinto Mountains in granite crevices at elevations around 2,500 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces delicate white flowers approximately 7 to 10 millimeters wide with white obovate petals. Growing with green, matted stems 2 to 15 centimeters long that hang or spread across rocky surfaces, it develops a branched caudex. Its leaves feature approximately 6 leaflets per side, with small oblanceolate to elliptic lobes 2 to 7 millimeters long, emerging from slightly hairy sheathing bases. The plant forms compact clusters with 1 to 10 flowers, with pedicels that curve distinctively in fruit.

Habitat: Granite crevices

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: +- 2500 m.

Bioregions: SnJt.

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