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Mexican Stonecrop

Sedum mexicanum Britton

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Sedum mexicanum Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1 : 257. 1899
Perennial, herbaceous ; stems brittle, weak, spreading, 1-2 dm. long. Leaves linear, sessile, compressed, tapering to a blunt tip, scattered, or those of sterile shoots and the lower part of flowering ones opposite or verticillate, 8-20 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide ; branches of the cyme mostly 2-forked, 4-8 cm. long ; flowers sessile, close together ; bracts longer than the similar calyx-segments; petals golden-yellow, oblong, acute, concave, widely spreading, tapering into a short claw, 5-6 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, a little longer than the two outer calyx-segments, twice as long as the three inner ones ; filaments nearly as long as the petals ; styles subulate.
Type locality : Raised from seeds collected near the City of Mexico. Distribution : Mexico.
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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
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Sedum mexicanum

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Sedum mexicanum, commonly known as the Mexican stonecrop,[1] is a flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae.

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  1. ^ a b USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Sedum mexicanum". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved September 8, 2013.
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Sedum mexicanum, commonly known as the Mexican stonecrop, is a flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae.

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