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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Sedum pulchellum
|accepted_authority=Michaux
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|place=1: 277. 1803,
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chetyson pulchellum
|authority=(Michaux) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chetyson vigilimontis
|authority=(Small) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sedum vigilimontis
|authority=Small
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Crassulaceae;Sedum;Sedum pulchellum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Crassulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Sedum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sedum pulchellum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 200
|treatment_page=page 204
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual or perennial (by formation of side shoots), rarely biennial, multi-stemmed from base, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> ascending, simple or branched, sometimes bearing rosettes. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, spreading, sessile; blade pale yellow-green, not glaucous, linear to oblanceolate or spatulate, subterete, 5–32 × 1.5–5 mm, base sagittately short-spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse to rounded, (surfaces papillose in rosette). <b>Flowering</b> shoots erect, simple, 6–23 cm; leaf blades linear, base with 2 sagittate spurs (unique in this species); offsets not formed. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymes, 10–40-flowered, 3-branched; branches secund or recurved, not forked; bracts absent or similar to leaves, smaller. <b>Pedicels</b> to 1 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 4(–7)-merous; sepals erect, distinct, light green, linear-lanceolate, unequal, 1.3–5.8 × 0.5–1.5 mm, apex acute or obtuse; petals erect or subdivergent, distinct, white to purple, narrowly linear-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, carinate and slightly channeled basally, 4–10 mm, apex acute or obtuse; filaments white or pinkish; anthers red or purple; nectar scales white, pinkish white, or yellow, square. <b>Carpels</b> spreading in fruit, distinct, light brown. <b>2n</b> = 22, ca. 42.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Areas of flat rocks, especially openings in cedar glades, ledges of cliffs, and bluffs, in shallow soil or in living mats of moss on rocks, often on limestone, sandstone, and chert
|elevation=90-500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Kans.;Ky.;Miss.;Mo.;Ohio;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Sedum pulchellum</i> is found in eastern North America from the Appalachian Ridge and Valley Province in northwestern Georgia and eastern Tennessee, westward through the southern Cumberland Plateau in northern Alabama and southeastern Tennessee, across the interior low plateaus of southern Illinois and central Kentucky and Tennessee, the till plains of Missouri, the Ozark plateaus of Arkansas and Missouri, and the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, to the Osage Plains of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sedum pulchellum
|authority=Michaux
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Chetyson pulchellum;Chetyson vigilimontis;Sedum vigilimontis
|basionyms=
|family=Crassulaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Areas of flat rocks, especially openings in cedar glades, ledges of cliffs, and bluffs, in shallow soil or in living mats of moss on rocks, often on limestone, sandstone, and chert
|elevation=90-500 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ill.;Kans.;Ky.;Miss.;Mo.;Ohio;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Bor.-Amer.
|publication year=
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_405.xml
|genus=Sedum
|species=Sedum pulchellum
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