Sedum spathulifolium |
Sedum praealtum |
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broad-leaf stonecrop, Pacific stonecrop, spatula-leaf stonecrop |
green cockscomb |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, glabrous. | Subshrubs, glabrous. | ||||
Stems | rhizomatous, procumbent or creeping, much-branched, bearing terminal rosettes. |
erect, pendulous, or prostrate, much-branched, not bearing basal 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. |
(axillary), ascending, usually simple, sometimes branched, 10–50 cm; leaf blades elliptic-oblanceolate, 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). |
alternate, spreading, sessile; blade green tinged with red, not glaucous, elliptic-oblanceolate, laminar, 40–80 × 13–25 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex rounded. |
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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. |
elongated paniculate cymes, 50–300+-flowered, 3–25-branched; branches not recurved, forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. |
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Pedicels | 2–8 mm. |
absent or to 1 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. |
(4–)5(–6)-merous; sepals erect, usually distinct, green, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic-oblong, unequal, 1.5–9.6 × 1–3.2 mm, apex obtuse; petals widely spreading, distinct or slightly connate basally, yellow, lanceolate, carinate, ca. 7.5 mm, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate; filaments yellow; anthers yellow; nectar scales yellowish or translucent, subquadrate or reniform. |
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Carpels | divergent in fruit, connate basally, brown. |
widely divergent in fruit, distinct, brown. |
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2n | = 30. |
= 68. |
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Sedum spathulifolium |
Sedum praealtum |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter. | |||||
Habitat | Cliffs | |||||
Elevation | 0-100 m (0-300 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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CA; c Mexico; Central America (Guatemala) [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Europe (Italy), Australia] |
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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.) |
The first record of Sedum praealtum cultivated in the United States is from 1930. It is native in the trans-Mexican volcanic belt. It was reported from Ventura County in 1948 and has naturalized in the vicinity of Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz County. (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. 215. | ||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | Crassulaceae > Sedum | ||||
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Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 227. (1832) | A. de Candolle: Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 11: 445. (1847) | ||||
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