Sedum laxum |
Sedum laxum var. laxum |
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rose-flower stonecrop |
rose flower stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, cespitose or not, glabrous. | |||||||||||||||||
Stems | root-stocks, ascending, much-branched, bearing rosettes. |
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Flowering shoots | erect or decumbent, simple or branched, 4–30(–40) cm; leaf blades oblanceolate, spatulate, obovate, or suborbiculate, base not spurred; offsets not formed. |
15–26(–40) cm; leaf blades glaucous, spatulate to oblanceolate, base obtuse, not clasping stem. |
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Leaves | 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. |
blades glaucous, spatulate or oblanceolate, 10–50 × 9–17 mm, apex truncate to obtuse. |
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Inflorescences | elongate, paniculate cymes, 12–80-flowered, monochasially 3+-branched; branches not recurved, 2-forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. |
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Pedicels | 0.6–6.3 mm. |
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Flowers | 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. |
sepals 3.5–5.1 mm, apex acute; petals pink or white, 9–11 mm; anthers red to reddish purple. |
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Carpels | erect in fruit, distinct, brown. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Sedum laxum |
Sedum laxum var. laxum |
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Phenology | Flowering spring-mid summer. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Serpentine bluffs | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 30-1400 m (100-4600 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; OR |
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Discussion | 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.) |
Variety laxum occurs in the drainage of the Smith River. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 218. | FNA vol. 8, p. 218. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | Crassulaceae > Sedum > Sedum laxum | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Gormania laxa | S. laxum subsp. perplexum | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | (Britton) A. Berger: in H. G. A. Engler et al., Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 18a: 451. (1930) | unknown | ||||||||||||||||
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