Sedum laxum (Britton) A.Berger

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Species

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Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, cespitose or not, glabrous. Stems root-stocks, ascending, much-branched, bearing rosettes. Leaves alternate, erect to spreading, sessile; blade green, glaucous or not, not pruinose, oblanceolate, spatulate, or obovate, subterete or somewhat flattened, 10-50 × (4.5-)6-33 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex truncate to rounded or obtuse, emarginate or barely notched. Flowering shoots erect or decumbent, simple or branched, 4-30(-40) cm; leaf blades oblanceolate, spatulate, obovate, or suborbiculate, base not spurred; offsets not formed. Inflorescences elongate, paniculate cymes, 12-80-flowered, monochasially 3+-branched; branches not recurved, 2-forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. Pedicels 0.6-6.3 mm. Flowers 5-merous; sepals erect, (closely appressed to corolla tube), slightly connate basally, pale green, ovate or lanceolate, equal, (2-)2.6-5.1 × 2 mm, apex acute or subacute, (rarely obtuse in var. flavidum); petals basally erect, divergent in distal 1/2, connate basally, pink, pinkish white, or white to yellowish white, lanceolate-oblong, oblanceolate-oblong, or elliptic-oblong, not carinate, 4-11 mm, apex obtuse, shortly mucronate or aristate; filaments white, greenish white, or pink; anthers red, reddish purple, red-brown, or yellow; nectar scales white, yellow, or pink, reniform or transversely oblong. Carpels erect in fruit, distinct, brown.
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A herb.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 0.18 - 0.3
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Environment

Serpentine bluffs; at elevations from 30-140 metres
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It is a temperate plant.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
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Usage

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Edible leaves stems
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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.
Mode cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 15 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
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Images

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Distribution

Sedum laxum world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:231760-2
WFO ID wfo-0001299434
COL ID 4W9GS
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Echeveria gormanii Gormania laxa Sedum laxum Cotyledon brittoniana Sedum laxum subsp. laxum Sedum laxum subsp. perplexum

Lower taxons

Sedum laxum subsp. heckneri