Sedum lanceolatum |
Sedum villosum |
|||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
lance-leaf stonecrop, spear-leaf stonecrop |
orpin velu, purple stonecrop |
|||||
Habit | Herbs, perennial, tufted, glabrous. | Herbs, biennial, rarely annual or perennial, multi-stemmed from base, hirtellous and glandular-hairy. | ||||
Stems | rootstocks, decumbent and ascending, branched, (sometimes papillose), bearing terminal rosettes and above ground shoots. |
erect, much-branched, bearing basal rosettes. |
||||
Flowering shoots | erect, simple or branched, 3–18 cm; leaf blades elliptic-lanceolate, base short-spurred; offsets not formed. |
erect, simple or branched from base, 2–10 cm; leaf blades elliptic-oblong to linear, base short-spurred; offsets not formed. |
||||
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, ascending, sessile; blade pea green, not glaucous, elliptic-oblong to linear, semiterete with flattened adaxial face, 3–8 × 1.4–1.9 mm, base short-spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse. |
||||
Inflorescences | cymes, 5–25-flowered, (1–)3(–6)-branched; branches ascending, spreading to erect, or recurved, forked; bracts similar to leaves. |
dense to congested corymbs, 3–10-flowered, 2–3-branched; branches not recurved, not forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. |
||||
Pedicels | absent or to 3 mm. |
3–8 mm. |
||||
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, distinct, green speckled with red or dark purple, lanceolate or ovate-elliptic, equal, 2–4 × 1–1.5 mm, apex obtuse, (glandular-hairy); petals stellately spreading, distinct, pink-red with darker midvein area abaxially, elliptic-ovate, not carinate basally, 3–4.5 mm, apex acute, (rarely glandular-hairy); filaments white; anthers red; nectar scales red, reniform or subquadrate. |
||||
Carpels | erect in fruit, basally connate, brown. |
erect in fruit, distinct, bright yellowish green turning dark wine-red. |
||||
2n | = 16. |
= 30. |
||||
Sedum lanceolatum |
Sedum villosum |
|||||
Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||
Habitat | Wet places and seepages, streamsides, south-facing slopes | |||||
Elevation | 0-1400(-3000) m (0-4600(-9800) ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK; YT
|
LB; QC; Greenland; Europe; n Africa; Atlantic Islands (Iceland) |
||||
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.) |
Sedum villosum, a calcifuge, is native in western, central, and northern Europe (Iceland to Lithuania and Poland) and is disjunct in eastern Canada (islands of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence) and Greenland. R. T. Clausen (1975) suggested that it might have arrived in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as seeds in floating pieces of ice from the shores of Greenland or Iceland. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
||||
Key |
|
|||||
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 206. | FNA vol. 8, p. 212. | ||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | Crassulaceae > Sedum | ||||
Sibling taxa | ||||||
Subordinate taxa | ||||||
Name authority | Torrey: Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 2: 205. (1827) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 432. 1753 , | ||||
Web links |
|