Sedum radiatum

Coast range stonecrop, Coast Range Stonecrop

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Coast range stonecrop is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, California Ranges, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, and southern Coast Ranges on rocky ledges and gravelly serpentine slopes at elevations of 60 to 2,100 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces yellow or white flowers in flat-topped clusters with petals 5 to 10 millimeters long. Growing with slender stems 4 to 20 centimeters tall, the plant develops fertile shoots that can create small rosettes from lower leaf axils. Its leaves are oblong to narrowly ovate, 5 to 11 millimeters long, with round to slightly flattened cross-sections and blunt to acute tips. The mature fruit consists of follicles 3 to 5 millimeters long, fused at the base and spreading outward.

Habitat: Rocky ledges, gravelly serpentine slopes

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 60-2100 m.

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaRF, SN, SnFrB, SCoRO

California counties: Mendocino, Butte, Glenn, Napa, Tulare, Humboldt, Marin, Trinity, Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, Lake, Contra Costa, San Benito, Calaveras, Monterey, Siskiyou, Tuolumne, Mariposa, Fresno, Sonoma, El Dorado, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Mono

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