Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sedum nevii
Add to the illustrations: Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. ed. 2. /. 2142; Lounsberry, Guide Wild Fl. pi. 90.
Add the variety: Sedum Nevii Beyrichianum (Masters) Praeger, Jour. Bot. 55: 212. 1917. Sedum Beyrichianum Masters, Gard. Chron. II. 10: 376. 1878. Described as more diffuse and greener than the species, with longer barren shoots, and more distinct, narrower leaves. Known only in cultivation, but doubtless from the eastern United States.
- 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 nevii A. Gray, Man. ed. 5. 172. 1867
Tufted, glabrous ; stems spreading or decumbent, flowering branches ascending, 8-13 cm. high. lycaves of the sterile shoots densely imbricated, spatulate or obovate, narrowed or cuneate at the base, mostly sessile, rounded at the apex, entire, 6-12 mm. long ; leaves of the flowering branches spatulate or linear-oblong, alternate ; cyme about 3-fork^d ; flowers close together, 6-8 mm. broad ; petals linear, longer than the sepals ; follicles about 4 mm. long, divergent, tipped with short styles.
Type locality : Mountains of Virginia to Alabama.
Distribution : On rocks, mountains of Virginia to Alabama and Illinois.
- 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
