Sedum album

White stonecrop

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

White stonecrop is a naturalized perennial found in the Sierra Nevada, central and southern Coast Ranges, San Bernardino Mountains, and Peninsular Ranges in dry, sunny disturbed habitats at elevations below 1,600 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces white to pinkish flowers 2 to 4.5 millimeters long in flat-topped clusters up to 18 centimeters wide. Growing with creeping stems 5 to 30 centimeters tall that have extensive slender rhizomes and stolons, it forms dense ground-covering mats. Its alternate leaves are linear to ovate, 4 to 20 millimeters long, ranging from green to reddish in color with blunt tips. The plant produces small erect follicles 2.5 to 4 millimeters long, with distinctive red anthers contrasting against white filaments.

Habitat: dry sunny roadcuts, pathsides, gravel, disturbed ground

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: < 1600 m

Bioregions: SN, CCo, SCo, SnBr, PR

California counties: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Marin, San Francisco, Mariposa, Nevada

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