Sedum stenopetalum |
Sedum nanifolium |
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narrow leaf stonecrop, narrow-petal stonecrop, worm-leaf stonecrop |
dwarf stonecrop |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, biennial, or weakly perennial, tufted or not, glabrous. | Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, glabrous. | ||||
Stems | decumbent, branched, bearing terminal rosettes. |
procumbent, becoming erect, (reddish-shiny proximally), long-branched, not bearing rosettes. |
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Flowering shoots | erect, branched, 10–43 cm; leaf blades linear, base with scarious spurs; offsets rosettes, produced from axils of leaves and bracts. |
erect, simple or branched, 2–4 cm; leaf blades orbiculate to broadly ovate, base not spurred; offsets not formed. |
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Leaves | alternate, spreading to erect, sessile; blade green, not glaucous, linear to elliptic-oblong (subulate when dry), subterete, 4.3–13.8 × 1.4–2.7 mm, base (persistent), spurred (spur simple, small), scarious, apex acute, (surfaces sometimes papillose marginally). |
alternate, (densely set), erect to slightly spreading, sessile; blade green with prominent red dots, not glaucous, sometimes waxy, orbiculate to broadly obovate, semiterete, 2.5–3.5(–5) × 2–2.5 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex rounded to acute. |
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Inflorescences | solitary flowers or cymes, 9–15(–25)-flowered, mostly 3-branched; branches slightly recurved, not forked; bracts linear-lanceolate, smaller than leaves, base spurred. |
subscorpioid cymes, 10–20-flowered, simple to 2-branched; branches erect to spreading or recurved, sometimes forked; bracts oblong, ca. 3 mm, base broadly spurred. |
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Pedicels | absent or to 0.5 mm. |
absent. |
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Flowers | 5-merous; sepals erect, distinct, pale green or yellow-green, lanceolate or ovate, equal, 2–3.7 × 0.9–1.7 mm, apex acute or long-acuminate; petals stellately spreading, distinct, deep yellow with green to brown dorsal keel to almost white, lanceolate or elliptic, slightly carinate, 5.4–8 mm, apex obtuse, acute, or long-acuminate, sometimes with aristate appendage; filaments yellow; anthers yellow; nectar scales greenish yellow or yellowish white, reniform-subquadrate or square. |
5-merous; sepals suberect, distinct basally, greenish, sometimes with reddish striations, subovate, unequal, 2–2.5 × 0.1–1.6 mm, apex obtuse, (papillose); petals erect to spreading, distinct, yellow with prominent, short, longitudinal red stripes, lanceolate, carinate, 4.5–5 mm, apex subobtuse, narrowly mucronate; filaments whitish or pale yellow; anthers yellow; nectar scales inconspicuous. |
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Carpels | divergent in fruit, shortly connate, pale green, yellow-green, or brown. |
spreading in fruit, distinct, tan or brown with reddish striations. |
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2n | = 50–54, 58, 62–70, 63–64. |
= 52, 53, 104. |
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Sedum stenopetalum |
Sedum nanifolium |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early winter. | |||||
Habitat | Limestone gravel or outcrops in various vegetation | |||||
Elevation | 1300-2000 m (4300-6600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC
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TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León) |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Mature follicles of Sedum stenopetalum are finely papillose, with prominent lips along the adaxial suture. Petal number can range from three to eight. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Sedum nanifolium is found in the Del Norte Mountains of Brewster County. The long-branched (to 20 cm), reddish-shiny stems are distinctive; see discussion under 19. S. robertsianum. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 209. | FNA vol. 8, p. 211. | ||||
Parent taxa | Crassulaceae > Sedum | Crassulaceae > Sedum | ||||
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Synonyms | Amerosedum stenopetalum | S. parvum subsp. nanifolium | ||||
Name authority | Pursh: Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 324. (1813) | Fröderström: Acta Horti Gothob. 10(app.): 96, figs. 736–746, plate 61. (1936) | ||||
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