Sedum oregonense |
Sedum spathulifolium |
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cream stonecrop, creamy stonecrop |
broad-leaf stonecrop, Pacific stonecrop, spatula-leaf stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, cespitose or not, glabrous. | Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, glabrous. | ||||
Stems | rhizomes, horizontal, much-branched, bearing rosettes. |
rhizomatous, procumbent or creeping, much-branched, bearing terminal rosettes. |
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Flowering shoots | erect, simple, (6–)10–28 cm; leaf blades suborbiculate or obovate, base not 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, ascending to spreading, sessile to subsessile; blade green, glaucous, not strongly pruinose, obovate or oblanceolate, subterete, 10–36 × 5–16 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex emarginate to retuse. |
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 | panicles, 10–120-flowered, 3–20-branched; branches not recurved, dichotomously 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 | 2–5 mm. |
2–8 mm. |
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Flowers | 5-merous; sepals (persistent, closely appressed to corolla tube), erect, connate basally, greenish, ovate, equal, 3.2–3.5 × 1–3 mm, apex subacute; petals (persistent until fruiting), erect basally, divergent apically, connate basally, creamy white, yellowish white, or pale yellow, elliptic-oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, cucullate, 5–9(–11.5) mm, apex abruptly pointed; filaments pale yellow; anthers yellow; nectar scales white or yellow, subreniform. |
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, brown, (strongly 5-veined). |
divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown. |
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2n | = 90. |
= 30. |
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Sedum oregonense |
Sedum spathulifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Gravel, mats of Selaginella or moss on rocky slopes and ledges, crevices of cliffs | |||||
Elevation | 900-2200 m (3000-7200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; OR
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CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | 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. 220. | FNA vol. 8, p. 222. | ||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | Crassulaceae > Sedum | ||||
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Synonyms | Cotyledon oregonensis | |||||
Name authority | (S. Watson) M. Peck: Man. Higher Pl. Oregon, 361. (1941) | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1832) | ||||
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