SPATHULIFOLIUM Hooker, 1834
Synonyms :
Gormania spathulifolia (Hooker) A.Love & D.Love (1985)
Echeveria spathulifolia De Smet ex Morren (1874)
Distribution : Western Canada, western USA.
Description (according to IHSP, 2003) :
Glabrous perennial herbs with stout branched rhizomes and procumbent or creeping stems terminating in a rosette.
Leaves alternate, spatulate, rounded or truncate, submucronate, papillose marginally, 7.1 - 19.2 x 4.6 - 9.3 mm, green, often glaucous or pruinose.
Flowering branches erect, 3 - 14 cm.
Inflorescences: Cymes with ± 3 branches, bracts oblong-spatulate or linear, smaller than the leaves of flowering branches, pedicels to 8 mm.
FIowers 5-merous, sweetly fragant, sepals broadly sessile, basally connate, lanceolate, linear-Ianceolate, oblong-ovate, or obovate, acute or obtuse, green or yellow-green, glaucous or pruinose, ± 2.5 x 1.5mm, petals free or slightly basally connate, linear to oblanceolate, acute, yellow, ± 7 mm, basally erect, then widely spreading, filaments yellow, anthers yellow.
Cytology : 2n = 30
Four subspecies :
Sedum spathulifolium ssp. pruinosum (Britton) Clausen & Uhl, 1944
Sedum spathulifolium ssp. purdyi (Jepson) Clausen, 1975
Sedum spathulifolium ssp. spathulifolium
Sedum spathulifolium ssp. yosemitense (Britton) Clausen, 1975