Sedum spathulifolium |
Sedum forsterianum |
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broad-leaf stonecrop, Pacific stonecrop, spatula-leaf stonecrop |
Forster's stonecrop, rock stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, glabrous. | |||||
Stems | rhizomatous, procumbent or creeping, much-branched, bearing terminal 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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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Pedicels | 2–8 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. |
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Carpels | divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Sedum spathulifolium |
Sedum forsterianum |
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Distribution |
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. 222. | |||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | |||||
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Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1832) | |||||
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