CRASSULACEAE (ORPINE FAMILY) 



201 



ish green, smooth, fleshy, alternate, sessile, hardly a quarter-inch 

 long, crowded and overlapping on the stalks. Flowers in small 

 terminal cymes, bright golden yellow, each about a half -inch broad ; 

 calyx four- or five-lobed; petals four or five, distinct; stamens 

 eight or ten. Follicles four or five, spreading, tipped with the 

 persistent styles. Seeds reddish yellow, very small. 

 Means of control the same as for Sedum stoloniferum. 



LIVE-FOREVER 



Sedum stoloniferum, Gmel. 



Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 



Time of bloom: June to July. 



Seed-time: August to September. 



Range: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine. 



Habitat : Fields and roadsides. 



An escape from the flower garden, very hard 

 to suppress when established as a weed. Stems 

 rather thick, spreading on all sides, taking root 

 at the joints and sending up numerous flowering 

 stalks, three to eight inches tall. Leaves opposite, 

 obovate, small, thick, sessile, wedge-shaped at the 

 base, the rounded tip finely scallop-toothed. 

 Flowers in flat, crowded cymes, the blossoms pink, 

 about a half-inch broad, the central and first- 

 opened flowers usually having five pointed petals, 

 most of the others but four. Seeds very small, 

 in four or five pointed spreading follicles which 

 are united at the base; not often produced, the 

 plant spreading chiefly by its stoloniferous stems. 

 (Fig. 143.) 



Means of control 



Careful hoe-cutting, skinning the patches from 

 the ground and removing to the compost heap or 

 the bonfire ; for any bit of stem in contact with 

 moist soil, if it contains a joint, will take root and 

 continue to grow. 



FIG. 143. 

 Live-forever 

 (Sedum stoloni- 

 ferum). X J. 



