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 
Fre. 143.— 
7 sah apes : Baie . Live-forever 
moist soil, if it contains a joint, will take root and (gedum _ stoloni- 
continue to grow. ferum). Xi. 
