WorldFloraDB - Sedum sarmentosum

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, glabrous. Stems creeping and ascending, branched, not bearing rosettes. Leaves in whorls of 3, spreading, sessile; blade pale yellowish green, not glaucous, narrowly rhombic-elliptic to widely lanceolate, subterete, 10-25 × 4-6 mm, base spurred, not scarious, apex subacute. Flowering shoots creeping or ascending, simple, 10-25 cm; leaf blades narrowly oblanceolate-elliptic, base short-spurred; offsets not formed. Inflorescences dense cymes or corymbs, 8-40-flowered, (1-)2-4-branched; branches spreading to widely ascending, sometimes forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. Pedicels absent or to 0.5 mm. Flowers 5-merous; sepals spreading, distinct basally, green, widely lanceolate to oblong, often unequal, 3.5-5 × 0.8-1.5 mm, apex acute or obtuse; petals spreading, slightly connate, yellowish, lanceolate to oblong, not carinate, 5-8 mm, apex long-mucronate; filaments yellow; anthers reddish; nectar scales orange, rectangular-spatulate. Carpels stellately patent in fruit, distinct, yellow-green. 2n = ca. 72.

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Herbs perennial. Sterile and flowering stems creeping and rooting at nodes toward inflorescences, slender, 10-25 cm. Leaves 3-verticillate; leaf blade oblanceolate to oblong, 1.5-2.8 × 0.3-0.7 cm, base abruptly narrowed and spurred, apex subacute. Cyme 3-5-branched, corymbiform, 5-6 cm diam., few flowered. Flowers sessile, unequally 5-merous. Sepals lanceolate to oblong, 3.5-5 mm, base spurless, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, lanceolate to oblong, 5-8 mm, apex ± long mucronate. Stamens 10, shorter than petals. Nectar scales cuneate-quadrangular, ca. 0.5 mm, apex subemarginate. Carpels divergent, oblong, 5-6 mm. Styles long. Seeds ovoid, ca. 0.5 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Aug.

Fibrous-rooted perennial with long, creeping stems, forming loose mats, and with decumbent or erect flowering shoots ca 1 dm; lvs mostly in whorls of 3, thick but flattened, oblanceolate-elliptic to lance-ovate, 2–3 cm; infl of a few divergent, branched, sympodial cymes; fls mostly 5-merous; pet yellow, widely spreading, lance-linear, 5–8 mm, connate for ca 0.5 mm; filaments basally adnate to the minute cor-tube; carpels erect in fl, becoming divergent, sterile; 2n=72. Native of China, frequently escaped in our range. Summer.

A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. The stems are creeping. They form roots at the nodes. They are 10-25 cm long.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

evergreen

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

1.0

Mature height (meter)

0.1 - 0.15

Root system

creeping-root fibrous-root

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

It is a temperate plant. In grows in shady places on rocky slopes in central China below 1,60 above sea level. In Sichuan.

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Shady places and rocks on slopes; at elevations up to 1,600 metres.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The young leaves and shoots are eaten. The leaves are flowers are used in a cooked side dish seasoned with sesame oil and soy sauce.

Uses	environmental use experimental purposes medicinal oil
Edible	flowers leaves stems
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	weak toxic (leaf), weak toxic (fruit)
Animal toxicity	weak toxic (leaf), weak toxic (fruit)

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.

Mode	cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days)	15 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°)	10
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-12
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-