Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sedum forreri Greene, Pittonia 1: 162. 1888
Sedum divergens Greene, Pittonia 1 : 154. 1888. Not 5. divergens S. Wats, 1882.
Annual, roots fibrous. Plant 5-8 cm. high, divergently branched; leaves narrowly oval or oblong, 2-5 mm. long, two or three times as long as wide, obtuse, sessile by a somewhat broader base ; flowers solitary or in pairs at the ends of the branches, 8-10 mm. broad ; calyxsegments oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, about one-half as long as the oblonglinear obtuse, white or faintly pink petals.
Type locality : Higher Sierra Nevada back of the city of Durango, Mexico. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- 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
