Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sedum submontanum Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 40. 1903
Perennial, much branched and spreading, glabrous throughout. Leaves very closely set or even imbricated, small, 3-5 mm, long, short-oblong, rounded at tip, free at base, fleshy; flowers few, in short-branched cymes, sessile; calyx-lobes leaf-like, short, 1-2 mm, long, rounded at apex; petals narrow, white (or if pink very pale), 5-6 mm. long; scales small, retuse at apex ; carpels spreading above.
Type locality : Monte Escobado, Zacatecas, Mexico. Distribution : Zacatecas ; Jalisco.
- 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
