Sedum laxum subsp. laxum

Roseflower stonecrop, Roseflower Stonecrop

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Roseflower stonecrop is a California native perennial found in the North Coast and Klamath Ranges, growing on cliffs, outcrops, and serpentine areas at elevations below 1,700 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces flowers with petals 7 to 14 millimeters long, featuring anthers that are initially dark red to red-orange and age to black or white. Growing 8 to 48 centimeters tall with a glaucous appearance, it forms distinctive rosettes with spreading stems. Its rosette leaves are 13 to 51 millimeters long and 8 to 23 millimeters wide, broadly obovate with rounded or notched tips, while stem leaves are obovate to oblong, often more than twice as long as wide. The plant's ascending to spreading leaves with truncate bases create a distinctive and compact growth form.

Habitat: Cliffs, outcrops, boulder fields, roadcuts, generally on serpentine

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: < 1700 m

Bioregions: NCo, KR

California counties: Siskiyou, Del Norte, Lake, Plumas, Trinity, Sierra, Tehama, Colusa, Mendocino, Humboldt

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