Sedum kiersteadiae

Sedum kiersteadiae MOUNT EDDY STONECROP

Higher Taxonomy

Family: Crassulaceae

Common Name: STONECROP FAMILY
Habit: Annual to shrub [+- tree-like or climbing], fleshy. Leaf: generally simple, alternate or opposite (whorled), in dense to open, basal (or terminal) rosettes, or basal and cauline (not in rosettes), reduced on distal stem or not, often +- red. Inflorescence: generally a cyme, panicle-like, generally bracted. Flower: generally bisexual; sepals generally 3--5, generally +- free; petals generally 3--5, +- free or fused; stamens >> to = sepals, epipetalous or not; pistils generally 3--5(--8), simple, fused at base or not, ovary 1-chambered, placenta 1, parietal, ovules 1--many, style 1 per pistil. Fruit: follicles, generally 3--5. Seed: 1--many, small.
Genera In Family: +- 33 genera, +- 1400 species: +- worldwide, especially dry temperate; many cultivated for ornament. Note: Water-stressed plants often +- red. Consistent terminology regarding leaves, bracts difficult; in Aeonium and Dudleya, structures in rosettes are leaves, those on peduncles are bracts, and those subtending flowers are flower bracts; thus in taxa where the inflorescence is terminal, rosette leaves may "become" bracts as stem rapidly elongates to form an inflorescence. In Sedum structures below the inflorescence are interpreted as stems and leaves, not peduncles and bracts. Seed numbers given per follicle. SCIED: Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, Thomas J. Rosatti.
eFlora Treatment Author: Steve Boyd, except as noted
Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, Thomas J. Rosatti.

Sedum kiersteadiae B.L. Wilson & R.E. Brainerd

NATIVE
Habit: Perennial herb, rhizomes stout. Stem: 7--29 cm, glabrous; rosettes loose in sunny sites, internodes easily visible, generally > 3 mm. Leaf: strongly flattened; rosette leaves > stem leaves, 12--35 mm, 5--18 mm wide, slightly glaucous, broadly obovate to oblanceolate, tip often notched; stem leaves alternate, 4--19 mm, elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, generally overlapping 0--2 adjacent leaves. Inflorescence: generally cylindrical (lanceolate or head-like), loosely flowered, with <= 55 flowers, erect in flower, nodding or arching in bud. Flower: calyx lobes (8--)15--45% as long as petals; petals 6--12 mm, light yellow, generally with pink or red midribs, often aging red, spreading, tips acute, often with a subterminal mucro; filaments white to yellow-green; anthers red, rusty red, or dark orange, aging purple or black, sometimes yellow aging brownish. Fruit: follicles fused at base, erect. Seed: 1.2--1.5 mm, lanceolate, striate. Chromosomes: 2n=30.
Ecology: Outcrops, ridgelines, rocky slopes, rocky forest openings, generally on serpentine; Elevation: 1100--2400 m. Bioregional Distribution: e KR (adjacent portions of Shasta, Siskiyou and Trinity cos.), CaRH (Mt. Shasta, Mud Creek Canyon). Flowering Time: Jun--Aug Note: Similar S. rubiginosum has denser inflorescences, denser rosettes, and occurs further south.
Synonyms: Sedum obtusatum A. Gray subsp. boreale R.T. Clausen; Sedum obtusatum A. Gray var. boreale (R.T. Clausen) H. Ohba
Jepson eFlora Author: Peter F. Zika, Richard E. Brainerd, Julie Kierstead, Barbara L. Wilson, Nick Otting & Steven Darington.
Reference: Wilson et al. 2014 J Bot Res Inst Texas 8:9--15.
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)

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Citation for this treatment: Peter F. Zika, Richard E. Brainerd, Julie Kierstead, Barbara L. Wilson, Nick Otting & Steven Darington. 2022, Sedum kiersteadiae, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 10, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=100467, accessed on October 03, 2023.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2023, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on October 03, 2023.

Sedum kiersteadiae

Sedum kiersteadiae

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Geographic subdivisions for Sedum kiersteadiae: e KR (adjacent portions of Shasta, Siskiyou and Trinity cos.), CaRH (Mt. Shasta, Mud Creek Canyon).	MAP CONTROLS 1. You can change the display of the base map layer control box in the upper right-hand corner. 2. County and Jepson Region polygons can be turned off and on using the check boxes.

(Note: any qualifiers in the taxon distribution description, such as 'northern', 'southern', 'adjacent' etc., are not reflected in the map above, and in some cases indication of a taxon in a subdivision is based on a single collection or author-verified occurence).	Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. MAP LEGEND View all CCH records All markers link to CCH specimen records. The original determination is shown in the popup window. Blue markers indicate specimens that map to one of the expected Jepson geographic subdivisions (see left map). Purple markers indicate specimens collected from a garden, greenhouse, or other non-wild location. Yellow markers indicate records that may provide evidence for eFlora range revision or may have georeferencing or identification issues. READ ABOUT YELLOW FLAGS CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa, if there are more than 1 infraspecific taxon in CA. Blue line denotes eFlora flowering time (fruiting time in some monocot genera).