The green links below add additional plants to the comparison table. Blue links lead to other Web sites.
enable glossary links

wormleaf stonecrop

Habit Glabrous perennial herbs from rhizomes, with numerous sterile shoots, the flowering stems erect to ascending, up to 2 dm. tall.
Leaves

Leaves alternate, linear or narrowly linear-lanceolate, keeled or nerved, narrowly tapered to a sharp tip, 5-15 mm. long, deciduous by flowering, except the decumbent branches have many leaves persistent, sometimes only the mid-ribs remaining; upper cauline leaves sometimes persistent and bearing bulblet-like structures.

Flowers

Flowers in compact cymes;

sepals 5, lanceolate, 2 mm. long;

petals 5, yellow, 6-8 mm. long, spreading, lanceolate, acuminate and ending in a sharp point;

stamens 10, 1.5-2.5 mm. shorter than the petals, 5 attached to the base of the petals. Occasionally some or all of the flowers are reduced to bulblets.

Fruits

Follicles 5, widely divergent.

Sedum laxum

Sedum stenopetalum

Flowering time May-July
Habitat Grasslands and ponderosa pine forests to sub-alpine ridges, on dry, gravelly benches, rock crevices and talus.
Distribution
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Occurring chiefly east of the Cascade crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the northern Rocky Mountains.
[WildflowerSearch map]
[BONAP county map]
Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
S. acre, S. album, S. brevifolium, S. divergens, S. forsterianum, S. lanceolatum, S. leibergii, S. oreganum, S. rupicola, S. spathulifolium, S. stenopetalum, S. thartii
S. acre, S. album, S. brevifolium, S. divergens, S. forsterianum, S. lanceolatum, S. leibergii, S. oreganum, S. rupicola, S. spathulifolium, S. thartii
Subordinate taxa
S. stenopetalum ssp. stenopetalum
Web links