Sedum lanceolatum |
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lance-leaf stonecrop, spear-leaf stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, tufted, glabrous. | ||||
Stems | rootstocks, decumbent and ascending, branched, (sometimes papillose), bearing terminal rosettes and above ground shoots. |
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Flowering shoots | erect, simple or branched, 3–18 cm; leaf blades elliptic-lanceolate, base short-spurred; offsets not formed. |
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Leaves | (not easily detached), alternate, spreading-erect to erect or ascending, sessile; blade dull gray-green or bluish green, green, or reddish green, often glaucous, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or elliptic-ovate, subterete, 4.2–13 × 1.5–3.5 mm, base very short-spurred, base of withered blade at times becoming scarious, apex obtuse or obtusely apiculate, (surfaces papillose). |
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Inflorescences | cymes, 5–25-flowered, (1–)3(–6)-branched; branches ascending, spreading to erect, or recurved, forked; bracts similar to leaves. |
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Pedicels | absent or to 3 mm. |
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Flowers | 5-merous; sepals erect, connate basally, pale green to yellow-green, ovate or lanceolate, equal, 2–5 × 1–2 mm, apex acute or, rarely, obtuse, (often papillose); petals widely spreading from suberect base, distinct, canary to golden yellow, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate, canaliculate, 6–9.2 mm, apex acute to acuminate with minute mucronate appendage; filaments yellow; anthers yellow, sometimes suffused with red; nectar scales deep yellow to yellow-green, obovately square. |
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Carpels | erect in fruit, basally connate, brown. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Sedum lanceolatum |
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Distribution |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK; YT
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Sedum lanceolatum forms offsets in the axils of rosette leaves. The mature carpels have divergent beaks and narrow lips along the adaxial suture. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 206. | ||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | ||||
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Name authority | Torrey: Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 2: 205. (1827) | ||||
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