Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sedum annuum I^. Sp. PL 432. 1753
Annual, with fibrous roots, glabrous. Stems tufted, 5-8 cm, high, ascending or erect, branched. Leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, terete, somewhat flattened above, 2-4 mm. long; flowers subsessile on the branches of the cyme, more or less unilateral, about 1 cm. broad ; calyx-segments oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse ; petals bright-yellow, lanceolate, sharply acute, twice as long as the calyx ; follicles short-tipped.
Type locality : Northern Burope.
Distribution : Greenland, northern and central Europe.
- 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
