200 
Fig. 
Cleome 
lata). 
CRASSULACEAE (ORPINE FAMILY) 
142. — Pink 
(Cleome_ serru- 
xt 
Stems two to three feet tall, erect, 
smooth, with a few branches near the top. 
Leaves alternate, three-parted, or the up- 
permost simple, the leaflets oblong, veiny, 
and pointed at each end; leaves near the 
base have slender petioles, but the upper 
ones are sessile or very short-petioled. 
Flowers in terminal racemes, rose-colored, 
sometimes nearly white, very showy, the 
four petals being about a half-inch in length 
and half as broad; sepals four, often per- 
sistent; ovary stalked, with a gland at its 
base; stamens usually six, occasionally four, 
inserted above the petals on the stipe of 
the ovary; pedicels subtended by small, 
lance-shaped bracts. Pods one-celled, very 
slender, one to two inches long, pointed at 
each end, crowded with seeds. (Fig. 142.) 
Means of control 
Cut or pull before the earliest flowers 
have matured any pods. 
MOSSY STONECROP 
Sedum acre, L. 
Other English names: Wall Pepper, Biting Orpine, Golden Moss, 
Creeping Jack, Pricket. 
Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by rooting at 
the joints. 
Time of bloom: June to August. 
Seed-time: July to September. 
arse New Brunswick to Ontario, southward to Virginia and 
0. 
Habitat: Fields and roadsides; cemeteries. 
At least one case of severe poisoning has been reported from the 
eating of this peppery little plant. Stems tufted, spreading on the 
ground, rather thick and succulent, rooting at the joints, only the 
flowering branches erect, one to three inches high. _ Leaves yellow- 
