Sedum spathulifolium |
Sedum lanceolatum |
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broad-leaf stonecrop, Pacific stonecrop, spatula-leaf stonecrop |
lance-leaf stonecrop, spear-leaf stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, glabrous. | Herbs, perennial, tufted, glabrous. | ||||||||
Stems | rhizomatous, procumbent or creeping, much-branched, bearing terminal rosettes. |
rootstocks, decumbent and ascending, branched, (sometimes papillose), bearing terminal rosettes and above ground shoots. |
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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, 3–18 cm; leaf blades elliptic-lanceolate, base short-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). |
(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). |
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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. |
cymes, 5–25-flowered, (1–)3(–6)-branched; branches ascending, spreading to erect, or recurved, forked; bracts similar to leaves. |
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Pedicels | 2–8 mm. |
absent or to 3 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, 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. |
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Carpels | divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown. |
erect in fruit, basally connate, brown. |
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2n | = 30. |
= 16. |
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Sedum spathulifolium |
Sedum lanceolatum |
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Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; SK; YT
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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.) |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 222. | FNA vol. 8, p. 206. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | Crassulaceae > Sedum | ||||||||
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Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1832) | Torrey: Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 2: 205. (1827) | ||||||||
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