The Morton Arboretum
The Field Museum
Chicago Botanic Garden
Additional Partners
Log In
New Account
Sitemap
Home
Search Collections
Map Search
Browse Images
Inventories
Aquatic Invasive Plant Guide
Naturalized flora of The Morton Arboretum
vPlants Checklist
Chicago Region Checklists and Inventories
Interactive Tools
vPlants Dynamic Key
Dynamic Checklist
Dynamic Key
Sedum moranii
R.T. Clausen
Family:
Crassulaceae
Rogue River Stonecrop
Images
not available
FNA
Resources
Hideaki Ohba in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Herbs,
perennial, tufted, glabrous proximally, glandular-pubescent distally.
Stems
rootstocks, vertical, branched, (glandular), bearing terminal rosettes.
Leaves
alternate, ascending, sessile; blade green, glaucous when young, oblong-spatulate, laminar, 14-32 × 9-14 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex widely rounded to obtuse or emarginate, with papillose-crenulate appendage, (surfaces of proximal leaves glabrous, of distal leaves glandular-hairy).
Flowering shoots
recurved when young, simple, 13-30 cm, (glandular-pubescent); leaf blades oblong-oblanceolate, base not spurred; offsets not formed.
Inflorescences
cymes (sometimes appearing paniculate), 20-30-flowered, (2-)3-branched; branches not recurved, not forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller.
Pedicels
1-3.6 mm.
Flowers
5-merous; sepals erect, connate basally, green, ovate or lanceolate, equal, 6.5-8.5 × 3-4.5 mm, apex obtuse or acute, (glandular-pubescent); petals erect, (convolute), connate basally, sulphur yellow, oblong-lanceolate, not carinate, 12.5-16 mm, apex aristate, (glandular-pubescent); filaments greenish yellow; anthers yellow; nectar scales white or translucent, narrowly reniform.
Carpels
subdivergent in fruit, connate basally, brown.
2
n
= 30.
Flowering late May-early Jun. Serpentine outcrops; of conservation concern; 100-800 m; Oreg.
Sedum moranii
is known only from one canyon off the Rogue River in Josephine County, southwestern Oregon.
Click to Display
0 Total Images