Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sedum stelliforme S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 365. 1885
Perennial by a rootstock ; stems leafy, simple or branched, 5-12 cm. high, glabrous. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, scattered, obtuse, 4-9 mm. long, about 2 mm. wide; cyme few-forked, its branches 3 cm. long or less; pedicels very short ; calyxsegments lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, blunt ; petals white tinged with purple, about 6 mm. long, lanceolate, acuminate, twice as long as the calyic and about equaling the stamens ; follicles about 4 mm. long, subulate-tipped, vddely divergent.
Type locality : Huachuca Mountains, southern Arizona. Distribution : Mountains of New Mexico, Arizona and Chihuahua.
- 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
