Broadleaf Stonecrop

Sedum spathulifolium Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 227. 1832
Rootstocks slender ; plant pale-green and somewhat glaucous ; flowering stems ascending or spreading, simple, or sometimes branched, 1-2 dm. long, the base decumbent. Basal and lower leaves spatulate, 2.S cm. long or less, blunt with a small acumination, the upper smaller and narrower ; a line of pits near the margin on the under side ; cyme 8 cm. broad or less, rather dense; pedicels 2-5 mm. long or less; calyx less than half as long as the petals, its segments la!nceolate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, pruinose ; corolla yellow, 8-10 mm. long, the petals lanceolate, acuminate, spreading or reflexed; carpels slightly divergent, subulatetipped.
Plant with the habit of Gormania^ but petals separate to the base. Type locality : Dr^ rocky places of the Columbia and Salmon rivers. Distribution : British Columbia tocentral California.