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Utah Ivesia (Ivesia utahensis)

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Photo by Tony Frates; sheriff_woody_pct; evolvulux; zharkikh
Tony Frates; Matt Berger; evolvulux; Andrey Zharkikh

Utah Ivesia

Utah Ivesia (Ivesia utahensis)

Photo by Tony Frates; sheriff_woody_pct; evolvulux; zharkikh
Tony Frates; Matt Berger; evolvulux; Andrey Zharkikh

Ivesia utahensis

NatureServe conservation status

Global (G-rank): G2
State (S-rank): S2

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Phenology

Flowers in August.

Species range

Endemic to the central Wasatch Range and west Uinta Mountains of north-central Utah in Salt Lake, Wasatch, Utah, Weber, Duchesne, and Summit counties.

Threats or limiting factors

Main threats to this species are from recreation and grazing related impacts to habitat. Climate change is also a threat due to rapid snowmelt and drought.

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Multicellular organisms that are autotrophic or make complex carbohydrates from basic constituents. Most use photosynthesis.

Flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary

Multicellular organisms that develop from the fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Heterotrophic - obtain food by ingestion.

Have skulls and backbones.

Cold blooded, lay eggs on land

Have feathers and lay eggs

Invertebrates with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages, and segmented bodies

Animals having 3 pair of legs, 3 body sections, generally 1 or 2 pair of wings, 1 pair of antennae.

Soft bodied animals with an internal or external shell and a toothed tongue or radula. Have a mantle that lines and secretes the shell and a muscular foot that allows for movement.

Two hinged lateral shells and a wedged shaped "foot". Bivalves lack tentacles and a head.


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