Sedum pulchellum

Michaux

Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 277. 1803,.

Endemic
Synonyms: Chetyson pulchellum (Michaux) Á. Löve & D. Löve Chetyson vigilimontis (Small) Á. Löve & D. Löve Sedum vigilimontis Small
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 204. Mentioned on page 200.

Herbs, annual or perennial (by formation of side shoots), rarely biennial, multistemmed from base, glabrous. Stems ascending, simple or branched, sometimes bearing rosettes. Leaves alternate, spreading, sessile; blade pale yellow-green, not glaucous, linear to oblanceolate or spatulate, subterete, 5–32 × 1.5–5 mm, base sagittately short-spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse to rounded, (surfaces papillose in rosette). Flowering shoots erect, simple, 6–23 cm; leaf-blades linear, base with 2 sagittate spurs (unique in this species); offsets not formed. Inflorescences cymes, 10–40-flowered, 3-branched; branches secund or recurved, not forked; bracts absent or similar to leaves, smaller. Pedicels to 1 mm. Flowers 4 (–7) -merous; sepals erect, distinct, light green, linear-lanceolate, unequal, 1.3–5.8 × 0.5–1.5 mm, apex acute or obtuse; petals erect or subdivergent, distinct, white to purple, narrowly linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, carinate and slightly channeled basally, 4–10 mm, apex acute or obtuse; filaments white or pinkish; anthers red or purple; nectar scales white, pinkish white, or yellow, square. Carpels spreading in fruit, distinct, light-brown. 2n = 22, ca. 42.


Phenology: Flowering spring–early summer.
Habitat: Areas of flat rocks, especially openings in cedar glades, ledges of cliffs, and bluffs, in shallow soil or in living mats of moss on rocks, often on limestone, sandstone, and chert
Elevation: 90-500 m

Distribution

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Ala., Ark., Ga., Ill., Kans., Ky., Miss., Mo., Ohio, Okla., Tenn., Tex.

Discussion

Sedum pulchellum is found in eastern North America from the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Province in northwestern Georgia and eastern Tennessee, westward through the southern Cumberland Plateau in northern Alabama and southeastern Tennessee, across the interior low plateaus of southern Illinois and central Kentucky and Tennessee, the till plains of Missouri, the Ozark plateaus of Arkansas and Missouri, and the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, to the Osage Plains of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Sedum pulchellum"
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
purple +  and red +
obtuse +, acute +  and rounded +
Hideaki Ohba +
Michaux +
not scarious +
pale yellow-green +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> - 3.2 cm32 mm <br />0.032 m <br /> +
lobed +  and toothed +
not glaucous +
subterete +, linear +  and oblanceolate or spatulate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> - 8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> +
succulent +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> - 0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> +
smaller +
not forked +
not circumscissile +
light-brown +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
not circumscissile +
Ala. +, Ark. +, Ga. +, Ill. +, Kans. +, Ky. +, Miss. +, Mo. +, Ohio +, Okla. +, Tenn. +  and Tex. +
90-500 m +
pinkish +  and white +
connate +  and distinct +
4 - -7-merous +
spreading;erect +
Areas of flat rocks, especially openings in cedar glades, ledges of cliffs, and bluffs, in shallow soil or in living mats of moss on rocks, often on limestone, sandstone, and chert +
axillary +  and terminal +
3-branched +  and 10-40-flowered +
persistent +  and deciduous +
connate +
yellow +, pinkish white +  and white +
spatulate;reniform;spatulate;reniform;oblong;square;oblong +
semi-inferior +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> - 0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> +
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
white +  and purple +
distinct +
subdivergent +  and erect +
channeled +, carinate +, elliptic-lanceolate +  and linear-lanceolate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> - 1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> +
Flowering spring–early summer. +
- 3-4-5 - -12[-30+]-carpellate +
distinct +  and connate +
Fl. Bor.-Amer. +
reticulate-papillose +  and reticulate +
ovoid;ellipsoid +
light green +
distinct +
linear-lanceolate +
unequal +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> - 0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> +
1 +  and many +
sagittate +
adnate +  and free +
antipetalous +
2 times as many as sepals +
branched +  and simple +
creeping +  and procumbent +
succulent +
distinct +
Chetyson pulchellum +, Chetyson vigilimontis +  and Sedum vigilimontis +
Sedum pulchellum +
species +
not conspicuous +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
biennial +, perennial +  and annual +
3 +  and 5 +