Pacific Stonecrop

Sedum divergens S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 372. 1882
Perennial by rather slender branched rootstocks, glabrous, 1.5 dm. high or less. Leaves obovate to orbicular-obovate, or the upper spatulate, obtuse, sessile, 5-8 mm, long, those of sterile shoots, or all of them, opposite ; cymes rather compact, 5 cm. broad or less ; flowers short-pedicelled ; calyx-segments triangular-ovate, nearly as wide as long, acutish ; petals lanceolate, acute, yellow, about 6 mm. long, three to four times as long as the calyx, about as long as the stamens ; follicles shorter than the petals, united below, widely divergent, short-tipped.
Type locality : Cascade mountains, Washington. Distribution : Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

Sedum divergens, commonly called spreading stonecrop, Cascade stonecrop or Pacific stonecrop, is a low growing flowering plant of the genus Sedum. It is native to western North America from Alaska to northern California. This plant is common in the lava beds of Northwest British Columbia where it is one of the food plants of the Nisga'a first nation.