Wildflowers Found in Oregon

Gordon's Ivesia

Ivesia gordonii - Uncommon, all summer, perennial, 2-8 in. Tufted perennial with blackened leaf bases. Stems ascending. Basal leaves bright green with glands, more than 20 pairs of overlapping lobes partly wrapped on stem; stem leaf single. Flower stems hold a 2-8 in. rounded cluster of 10-20 flowers at top. Flower petals small, yellow, oval, with 5 stamens and 2-4 pistils. Grows in dry rocky ridges, talus slopes, floodplains, at high elevations. Native.