Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sedum ciliosum Howell, Fl. N.W. Am. 214. 1898
Perennial by a short branching rootstock ; stems rather slender, branched or simple ; 5-12 cm. high. Leaves lanceolate, long-acuminate, 1-2 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide near the base, ciliate-puberulent or the upper glabrous, veiny when dry, usually bearing leafy shoots in th-e axils; flowers sessile or short-pedicelled, in small compact cymes; calyxsegments ovate, long-acuminate, half as long as the lanceolate acuminate petals, which are 7-9 mm. long and somewhat exceed the stamens ; carpels about 4 mm. long, subulate-tipped, divergent from their somewhat united bases.
Type locality : On rocks in the Coast mountains near Roseburg, Oregon. Distribution : Known only from the original locality.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
