Ivesia lycopodioides

Club-moss ivesia

Family: Rosaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Club-moss ivesia is a California native perennial found in alpine and subalpine meadows and rocky areas at high elevations. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces small yellow flowers approximately 6 to 12 millimeters wide in dense clusters 5 to 25 millimeters across. Growing with decumbent to erect green stems, it forms rosetted plants with a generally simple caudex. Its leaves have distinctive, densely overlapping leaflets with 4 to 10 lobes on each side, typically with one cauline leaf and ciliate sheathing bases. The tiny fruits are smooth and pale, measuring 1 to 1.5 millimeters in length.

California counties: Mono, Fresno, Inyo, Tuolumne, Tulare

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