Family: Crassulaceae,
Stonecrop
Genus: Sedum
Description
General: tufted, hairless succulent perennial with root-
stocks and usually numerous sterile shoots and basal
rosettes, the flowering stems mostly 5-20 cm tall.
 Leaves: alternate, linear or linear-lanceolate and
cylindrical to ovate and more or less flattened, not keeled,
5-20 mm long, with minute bumps or smooth, often
withering by flowering time.
 Flowers: several in mostly rather compact, flat-topped,
often almost head-like clusters. The 5 sepals triangular-
lanceolate, 2-3.5 mm long. The 5 petals yellow, sometimes
reddish-tinged, lanceolate, pointed, distinct, about 6-7 mm
long, 1.5-2.5 mm longer than the stamens, spreading.
Flowering time: June-August.
 Fruits: clusters of 5 erect follicles, joined at the base,
splitting open along their upper side, the styles spreading
to erect.
Distribution
Open exposed places, usually on rocks or on gravelly or
rocky soil, from the foothills to subalpine areas, in w. and
c. parts of MT. Also from s. AK and Yukon s. to Alberta
and CA, and from SD, and NE to CO and NM.
 Edible and Medicinal plant, see below.
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