About
A rare stonecrop known only from four sites on Red Mountain near Ukiah in Mendocino County, California. It forms small blue-green rosettes and bears star-shaped red or pink flowers.
Field notes
Morphology
Small perennial with basal rosettes a few centimetres wide. Leaves 1–3 cm long, widest near the tip, blue-green blushing red. Flowers are many and star-shaped in a spreading or flat-topped cluster, with red or pink petals up to 1 cm and red to purplish anthers.
Distribution & habitat
Endemic to Red Mountain, Mendocino County, California, on steep, exposed, rocky serpentine slopes.
History & etymology
Has also been treated as a subspecies of Sedum laxum.
Conservation
About 5,300 plants are estimated to exist; the main potential threat is mining for nickel, chromium and cobalt.
Habitat
- Altitude
- Not recorded
- Altitude class
- —
- Native to
- United States
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- Not recorded
Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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