Sedum cockerellii |
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cockerell's stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, tufted, glabrous. |
Stems | rootstocks, erect, rarely branched, (smooth or papillose), bearing erect shoots and axillary rosettes. |
Flowering shoots | erect, simple, 5–10 cm, (sometimes papillose distally); leaf blades oblanceolate-elliptic, oblanceolate-oblong, or spatulate, base short-spurred; offsets not formed. |
Leaves | alternate, spreading to ascending, sessile; blade green or yellow-green, sometimes glaucous, obovate or oblong-spatulate, laminar, 9.5–15 × 1.5–3.5 mm, base spurred, not scarious, apex rounded to obtuse, (surfaces papillose). |
Inflorescences | 3-parted cymes, (4–)10–27-flowered, 1–3-branched, sometimes monochasially; branches ± arched, spreading, or sometimes recurved, sometimes forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. |
Pedicels | 1–3.5 mm. |
Flowers | 5-merous; sepals erect to spreading, distinct basally, yellow-green to yellow, lanceolate-linear or clavate-oblong, unequal, 4.5–12 × 1.4–2.6 mm, apex acute or obtuse, (papillose); petals erect, curving upward distally, distinct, rarely slightly connate, white streaked with pink, lanceolate-elliptic, not carinate, 5–8 mm, apex obtuse, with minute mucronate appendage; filaments white; anthers purple or brown; nectar scales yellow or creamy white, square. |
Carpels | erect in fruit, distinct, pale brown. |
2n | = 28, 30, 32, (34), 58, 64. |
Sedum cockerellii |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–early autumn. |
Habitat | Pine forests in high mountains, shallow soils, usually in shade |
Elevation | 1600-3200 m (5200-10500 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX
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Discussion | Mature carpels of Sedum cockerellii have conspicuous, divergent beaks. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 205. |
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum |
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Synonyms | Cockerellia cockerellii |
Name authority | Britton: in N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose, New N. Amer. Crassul., 41. (1903) |
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