Ash Meadows ivesia

Potentilla eremica Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 7: 76. 1892; Ivesia eremica (Coville) Rydberg

Plants silvery; caudices often much branched. Basal leaves: petioles of inner leaves with dense, ascending hairs 1–1.5 mm; leaflets 30–60 per side, tightly overlapping, mostly not individually distinguishable, densely sericeous or villous. Inflorescences 5–30-flowered, 1–6 cm diam.

Flowering summer. Damp alkali-crusted flats, in saltbush communities; of conservation concern; 600–700 m; Nev.

Variety eremica is known only from Ash Meadows, Nye County.