Sedum spathulifolium |
Sedum album |
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broad-leaf stonecrop, Pacific stonecrop, spatula-leaf stonecrop |
white stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, glabrous. | Herbs, perennial, laxly cespitose, minutely puberulent, papillose. | ||||
Stems | rhizomatous, procumbent or creeping, much-branched, bearing terminal rosettes. |
creeping and short-ascending, much-branched, (densely glandular-pubescent basally), not bearing rosettes. |
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Flowering shoots | erect, simple, 3–14 cm; leaf blades spatulate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, base not spurred; offsets not formed. |
erect, simple or branched, 5–18(–30) cm, (glabrous or sparsely hairy); leaf blades linear to ovate, base scarcely spurred; offsets not formed. |
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Leaves | 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). |
alternate, patent or appressed, sessile; blade green, often reddish, not glaucous, linear to ovate, subterete but adaxial surface somewhat flattened, 4–20(–25) × 1–20 mm, base scarcely spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse or rounded, (surfaces glabrous or sparsely hairy). |
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Inflorescences | cymes, ca. 30-flowered, ca. 3-branched; branches not recurved, forked; bracts oblong-spatulate or linear, ca. 3 cm, base not spurred. |
paniculate cymes, 15–50+-flowered, 3–5-branched; branches reflexed, forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. |
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Pedicels | 2–8 mm. |
3–5 mm. |
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Flowers | 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. |
5-merous; sepals erect, connate basally, green, ovate to triangular, equal, 0.5–1.5 × 0.2–0.5 mm, apex acute, (glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulent); petals spreading, distinct, white or rarely pink, lanceolate, not carinate, 2–4.5 mm, apex subacute; filaments white; anthers red; nectar scales white or yellow, spatulate. |
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Carpels | divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown. |
erect in fruit, distinct, whitish. |
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2n | = 30. |
= 34, 51, 68, 85, 102, 136. |
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Sedum spathulifolium |
Sedum album |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. | |||||
Habitat | Calcareous rock ledges, gravelly flat areas, ruderal areas | |||||
Elevation | 60-1400 m (200-4600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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CA; IN; ME; MI; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; UT; WA; WV; BC; NB; ON; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America]
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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.) |
Sedum album was first reported as naturalized in the United States in 1934. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 222. | FNA vol. 8, p. 213. | ||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | Crassulaceae > Sedum | ||||
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Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1832) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 432. (1753) | ||||
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