Sedum stenopetalum

Narrow leaf stonecrop

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Narrow leaf stonecrop is a California native perennial found in the northwestern California, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco Bay Area, and Modoc Plateau regions in well-drained, rocky or gravelly soil at elevations of 1,400 to 2,600 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces white or yellow flowers in clusters that are solitary or arranged in small raceme-like formations. Growing with slender stems 5 to 38 centimeters tall, it develops distinctive rosettes with leaves arranged in a dense spiral and often produces vegetative bulblets in leaf axils. Its leaves are narrowly lanceolate, 6 to 16 millimeters long, with proximal stem leaves becoming dried and scarious as they age, often developing a long midvein awn. The mature follicles spread 5 to 8 millimeters wide, with tiny seeds less than 1.4 millimeters long.

Habitat: Well-drained, rocky or gravelly soil

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 1400-2600 m.

Bioregions: NW, CaR, SN, SnFrB, MP

California counties: Tulare, Inyo, Modoc, El Dorado, Fresno, Siskiyou, Lassen, Humboldt, Mendocino, Nevada, Placer, Mariposa

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