Comprehensive Description
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Sedum stenopetalum
Add the synonym: Sedum subalpinum Blankinship, Mont. Agr. Coll. Stud. 1:61. 1905. Add to the illustrations: Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. ed. 2./. 2138; Clements, Rocky Mt. Fl. pi. 30, f. 8.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1918. ROSACEAE (conclusio). North American flora. vol 22(6). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sedum stenopetalum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 324. 1814
Sedum coerulescens Haw. Phil. Mag. 1825 : 174. According to Ind. Kew.
Sedum lanceolatum Torr. Ann. I^yc. N, Y. 2 : 205. 1827.
?5^£^MW5M6£/az^a^/ww Haw. Phil. Mag. 1831: 414. ,^ ^ ^^ ^ „ , ^^ _. __,
Sedum stenopetalum forma rubrolineatum Cockerell, Bull. Torrey Club 18 : 169. 1891.
^ Perennial, tufted, glabrous; flowering branches 8-18 cm. high. Leaves alternate, crowded but scarcely imbricated, except on the sterile shoots, sessile, linear, 6-16 mm. long, entire; cyme 3-7-forked, compact; flowers niostly short-pedicelled, 8-10 mm. broad; petals narrowly lanceolate, very acute, yellow; follicles about 4 mm. long, the subulate style-tips at length somewhat divergent.
Type locality : On rocks on the banks of Clark's River and Kooskoosky.
Distribution : In dry rocky soil, South Dakota to Alberta, Nebraska, New Mexico and California.
- 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
