Hylotelephium telephioides
Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 90: 53. 1977 ,.
Stems 2–4 (–6) dm × 3–10 mm, from short rootstocks with pale-brown, stout roots. Leaves opposite or mostly alternate, sessile or short-petiolate, becoming scarcely smaller distally; blade green or yellow-green, often glaucous, ovate to obovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 2–11 × 0.5–4.5 cm, base cuneate, margins entire to remotely or coarsely dentate, apex acute to rounded. Cymes lax, 3–15 cm diam. Pedicels ca. 2 mm. Flowers fertile, 5–16 mm diam.; sepals lanceolate, 2–4 mm; petals white or pink-tinged to pinkish, with greenish keel, 4–8 mm; stamens 5, ca. 1/2 as long as petals; pistils 5, 3–4 mm; styles 1.5–2 mm; nectaries pinkish, quadrate, 0.5–1 mm, wider than long. 2n = 24.
Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: On rocks, ledges and crevices of cliffs, rocky slopes, crests of bluffs, rocky woods
Elevation: 50-2000 m
Distribution
Ont., Ill., Ind., Ky., Md., Mich., Minn., N.C., Ohio, Pa., S.C., Va., W.Va.
Discussion
Hylotelephium telephioides is a rare escape from cultivation, where it is not native in the flora area. R. T. Clausen (1975) discredited reports of this plant for Georgia and New York.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.