Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gormania debilis (S. Wats.) Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 30
1903.
Sedum debile S. Wats. Bot. King's Kxp. 102. 1871.
Perennial by slender branched rootstocks, glabrous ; stems slender, weak, decumbent, or erect, simple or branched, 3-12 cm. high. Leaves obo vat eorbicular, or the upper ones oblong, obtuse, sessile, 2-8 mm. wide; cymes 2-5 cm. broad; flowers pedicelled, the pedicels often as long as the calyx or longer ; cal3rxsegments ovate-lanceolate, acutish ; petals yellow, lanceolate, acuminate, about twice as long as the caljrx, 6-8 mm. long, united at the very base; follicles erect, tipped by the subulate styles.
Type locality : On rocky ridges on the East and West Humboldt mountains Nevada and in the Wahsatch and Uintas.
Distribution : Utah, Nevada, Idaho and eastern Oregon.
- 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
