Sedum kiersteadiae

Mount eddy stonecrop

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Mount eddy stonecrop is a California native perennial found in the high Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada Mountains on serpentine outcrops, ridgelines, and rocky forest slopes at elevations of 1,100 to 2,400 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces light yellow flowers with pink or red midribs, often aging to red, in compact cylindrical clusters with up to 55 blossoms. Growing with slender stems 7 to 29 centimeters tall, it forms loose rosettes in sunny locations with distinctly spaced internodes. Its rosette leaves are broadly obovate to oblanceolate, 12 to 35 millimeters long, slightly glaucous, and often have notched tips, while stem leaves are smaller and alternately arranged. The plant has white to yellow-green flower filaments and distinctive red, rusty red, or dark orange anthers that age to purple or black.

Habitat: Outcrops, ridgelines, rocky slopes, rocky forest openings, generally on serpentine

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1100-2400 m

Bioregions: CaRH, SN.

California counties: Siskiyou, Trinity, Plumas, Sierra, Lake, Colusa, Shasta, Alpine, Humboldt, Del Norte, Tuolumne, Nevada

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