Ivesia gordonii

Alpine ivesia

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Alpine ivesia is a California native perennial found in alpine and subalpine areas of the Sierra Nevada Mountains at high elevations above 2,000 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in compact clusters 10 to 30 millimeters wide. Growing in tight tufted clumps with green stems 5 to 20 centimeters tall, it forms a slightly branched caudex. Its complex leaves are typically 3 to 8 centimeters long, with 10 to 16 densely overlapping leaflets per side, each divided into 4 to 8 small oblanceolate to obovate lobes. The delicate yellow flowers, measuring 5 to 9 millimeters wide, are complemented by narrow petals that are slightly shorter than the sepals.

California counties: Alpine, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Placer, Mono, El Dorado, Modoc, Siskiyou, Amador, Tulare, Lake, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Trinity, Nevada, Colusa, Mendocino, Fresno

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