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El Paso County Wildflower Project - Lanceleaf Stonecrop - Jason Fazio

Lanceleaf Stonecrop

Bloom Season: May - September

Habitat: It thrives in exposed, rocky foothills, mountainous ridges, and sunlit gaps in montane forests. It requires dry, well-drained, gritty soil and full sun.

Photography Notes: Susceptible to a breeze

Credits: Jason Fazio, 23 June

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.


El Paso County Wildflower Project - Lanceleaf Stonecrop - Jason Fazio

Credit: Jason Fazio | 23 June


El Paso County Wildflower Project - Lanceleaf Stonecrop - Bob Falcone

Credit: Bob Falcone | 7 July

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Lanceleaf Stonecrop (native) is one of many wildflowers featured in the El Paso CO Wildflower Project, a community-built field guide documenting the wildflowers of El Paso County, Colorado.