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Ivesia kingii, sometimes reclassified as Potentilla kingii, is a species of flowering plant known by the common name King's mousetail.

Ivesia kingii
var. eremica
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Ivesia
Species:	I. kingii
Binomial name
Ivesia kingii S.Watson
Synonyms
Potentilla kingii (S.Watson) Greene

It is native to the southwestern United States, where it is known from eastern California, Nevada, and Utah.

One variety of this species, var. eremica, is endemic to Ash Meadows in the Amargosa Desert, in Nye County, Nevada, on the California-Nevada border.[1] It is federally listed as a threatened species of the United States.[2]

References

External links

Media related to Potentilla kingii at Wikimedia Commons

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