Sedum lanceolatum |
Sedum laxum |
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lance-leaf stonecrop, spear-leaf stonecrop |
rose-flower stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, tufted, glabrous. | Herbs, perennial, cespitose or not, glabrous. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | rootstocks, decumbent and ascending, branched, (sometimes papillose), bearing terminal rosettes and above ground shoots. |
root-stocks, ascending, much-branched, bearing rosettes. |
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Flowering shoots | erect, simple or branched, 3–18 cm; leaf blades elliptic-lanceolate, base short-spurred; offsets not formed. |
erect or decumbent, simple or branched, 4–30(–40) cm; leaf blades oblanceolate, spatulate, obovate, or suborbiculate, base not 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). |
alternate, erect to spreading, sessile; blade green, glaucous or not, not pruinose, oblanceolate, spatulate, or obovate, subterete or somewhat flattened, 10–50 × (4.5–)6–33 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex truncate to rounded or obtuse, emarginate or barely notched. |
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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. |
elongate, paniculate cymes, 12–80-flowered, monochasially 3+-branched; branches not recurved, 2-forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. |
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Pedicels | absent or to 3 mm. |
0.6–6.3 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. |
5-merous; sepals erect, (closely appressed to corolla tube), slightly connate basally, pale green, ovate or lanceolate, equal, (2–)2.6–5.1 × 2 mm, apex acute or subacute, (rarely obtuse in var. flavidum); petals basally erect, divergent in distal 1/2, connate basally, pink, pinkish white, or white to yellowish white, lanceolate-oblong, oblanceolate-oblong, or elliptic-oblong, not carinate, 4–11 mm, apex obtuse, shortly mucronate or aristate; filaments white, greenish white, or pink; anthers red, reddish purple, red-brown, or yellow; nectar scales white, yellow, or pink, reniform or transversely oblong. |
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Carpels | erect in fruit, basally connate, brown. |
erect in fruit, distinct, brown. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Sedum lanceolatum |
Sedum laxum |
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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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CA; OR
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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.) |
Varieties 5 (5 in the flora). Sedum laxum is unusual in forming offsets in axils of rosette leaves rather than on a rootstock or creeping stem. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 206. | FNA vol. 8, p. 218. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | Crassulaceae > Sedum | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Gormania laxa | |||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Torrey: Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 2: 205. (1827) | (Britton) A. Berger: in H. G. A. Engler et al., Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 18a: 451. (1930) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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