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Sedum lanceolatum
Also called Lance-leaved stonecrop, Lanceleaf Stonecrop, Spear Leaved Stonecrop, Lanceleaved Stonecrop, Yellow Stonecrop, Lance Leaf Stonecrop
Spearleaf stonecrop is a small, low-growing succulent perennial from cold, rocky mountain habitats in western North America. It grows best with full sun, sharp drainage and little water, and it does poorly in wet climates.
Sedum lanceolatum is a species of flowering plant in the stonecrop family known by the common names lanceleaf stonecrop and spearleaf stonecrop.
It is native to western North America and occurs in western Canada and the United States. It is distributed from Alaska to Arizona and New Mexico and as far east as South Dakota and Nebraska. It grows in exposed, rocky mountainous habitats at moderate and high elevations, up to 4,048 meters (13,281 ft) in the Rocky Mountains. The plant persisted and evolved on sky islands and nunataks in these ranges during glaciation events during the Pleistocene epoch.
Lanceleaf stonecrop has a native range across much of western North America from Alaska to New Mexico. In Canada it is reported from the Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. In the Pacific Northwest, it grows in much of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Eastward across the Rocky Mountains it is only reported from three counties in Montana. It grows in five counties in the Black Hills of southwest South Dakota while only found Sioux County at the western edge of Nebraska. It grows in all but two counties of Wyoming and the western two-thirds of Colorado. It only grows in the northwestern part of New Mexico. In the Southwestern United States it grows throughout all of Utah, the northeastern part of Arizona, many parts of Nevada, and in the high Sierra Nevada ranges, the Klamath Ranges, and high Cascade Mountains in California. The exact extent of its range is uncertain, but is estimated at between 20,000 and 2,500,000 square kilometers (8,000 and 965,000 sq mi).
Lanceleaf stonecrop is a drought tolerant species that is planted in rock gardens. However, it is a rare species in the plant trade and usually only available from specialist sources in Europe. It can be slow to spread and difficult to grow in areas of high rainfall.
Stonecrop · Biting Stonecrop · White Stonecrop · Sedum brissemoretii · Broad Leaved Stonecrop · Thick-leaf stonecrop · Tree stonecrop · Euxinian Stonecrop · Sedum humifusum · Needle stonecrop · Mexican stonecrop · Small Fruited Stonecrop
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sedum lanceolatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
