Sedum cockerellii |
Sedum spathulifolium |
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cockerell's stonecrop |
broad-leaf stonecrop, Pacific stonecrop, spatula-leaf stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, tufted, glabrous. | Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, glabrous. | ||||
Stems | rootstocks, erect, rarely branched, (smooth or papillose), bearing erect shoots and axillary rosettes. |
rhizomatous, procumbent or creeping, much-branched, bearing terminal rosettes. |
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Flowering shoots | erect, simple, 5–10 cm, (sometimes papillose distally); leaf blades oblanceolate-elliptic, oblanceolate-oblong, or spatulate, base short-spurred; offsets not formed. |
erect, simple, 3–14 cm; leaf blades spatulate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, base not spurred; offsets not formed. |
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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). |
alternate, spreading, petiolate; blade green, often glaucous or pruinose, spatulate, terete to laminar, 7–19 × 4.5–10 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex rounded or truncate, submucronate, (surfaces papillose marginally). |
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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. |
cymes, ca. 30-flowered, ca. 3-branched; branches not recurved, forked; bracts oblong-spatulate or linear, ca. 3 cm, base not spurred. |
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Pedicels | 1–3.5 mm. |
2–8 mm. |
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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. |
5-merous; sepals spreading to erect, connate basally, green or yellow-green, glaucous or pruinose, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, oblong-ovate, or obovate, equal, ca. 2.5 × 1.5 mm, apex acute or obtuse; petals widely spreading from short, erect base, distinct or slightly connate basally, yellow, linear to oblanceolate, not carinate, 4.5–9 mm, apex acute; filaments yellow; anthers yellow; nectar scales yellow, reniform or nearly square. |
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Carpels | erect in fruit, distinct, pale brown. |
divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown. |
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2n | = 28, 30, 32, (34), 58, 64. |
= 30. |
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Sedum cockerellii |
Sedum spathulifolium |
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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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CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Mature carpels of Sedum cockerellii have conspicuous, divergent beaks. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The mature carpels of Sedum spathulifolium have five ribs and prominent lips along the adaxial suture. The flowers are sweetly fragrant. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 205. | FNA vol. 8, p. 222. | ||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | 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) | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1832) | ||||
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