Sedum oblanceolatum

Applegate stonecrop

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.1

Applegate stonecrop is a rare (CNPS 1B.1) California native perennial found in northern Klamath Ranges in northwestern Siskiyou County on dry rocky slopes, sunny outcrops, and ridgelines at elevations of 900 to 1,750 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white to creamy white flowers, sometimes fading yellowish, in spheric to cylindrical clusters 2.5 to 8.5 centimeters long. Growing with glaucous stems 10 to 22 centimeters tall, it forms dense rosettes up to 6 centimeters in diameter with strongly flattened leaves. Its leaves are oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 15 to 55 millimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters wide, with obtuse to notched tips and covered in a thick layer of granular wax that leaves a white residue when handled. The mature follicles are slightly fused above the base, standing 6 to 10 millimeters tall and containing narrowly lanceolate seeds.

Habitat: dry rocky slopes, sunny outcrops, ridgelines, on serpentine and non-serpentine substrates

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 900-1750 m

Bioregions: n KR (nw Siskiyou Co.)

California counties: Siskiyou

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