Sedum flavidum

Pale-yellow stonecrop

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Pale-yellow stonecrop is a native perennial ranked 4.3 by CNPS, found in rocky habitats across California, including dry sunny slopes, serpentine outcrops, and scattered pine chaparral at elevations of 200 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white to light yellow flowers, sometimes with reddish midveins, in dense clusters 12 to 80 flowers long. Growing 9 to 20 centimeters tall with glaucous, glabrous stems, it forms dense rosettes in sunny sites with obscured internodes. Its distinctive leaves range from green to blue-green, pink, and purple, with rosette leaves 12 to 40 millimeters long, broadly obovate to oblanceolate, often with truncate or notched tips. The plant's delicate white to yellow flowers, which may age to pink or red, add a subtle charm to its rocky mountain habitats.

Habitat: dry sunny or partly shaded rocky slopes, scree, outcrops, barrens, serpentine, basalt, or metamorphic; also duff of scattered pines in chaparral

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 200-2200 m

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.