Lance-leaved Stonecrop

Sedum lanceolatum

Pollinator plant

Growing it

When	Flowers June to July
Type	groundcover
Sun	Full sun
Water	Low
Soil	pH 6–8
Hardiness	zone 2–8
Mature height	0.15 m
Mature spread	0.3 m
Spacing	0.2 m
Years to maturity	2
Bloom	Jun–Jul
Flower colour	Yellow read from a published flora
In bloom	June July
Native to	AB, SK

lance-shaped leaves about 2 cm long

Where it has been recorded

BothSpecimensObservations

80 squares of about 28 km, each holding at least one record. A square is not a claim that the plant grows throughout it, and an unshaded square is unrecorded rather than empty. Darker squares hold more records, which follows roads and towns as much as it follows the plant. 86 herbarium specimens and 463 field observations this project may redraw. A filled dot is a pressed sheet somebody can re-examine; a hollow ring is a photograph identified by community agreement. Where the dots are dense is where people have looked, not where the plant is commonest, and empty ground is unsurveyed rather than unoccupied. How this map is made.

Which ecoregions the records fall in

Northern Continental Divide south AB: 689 records, high confidence
Peace Lowland north AB: 246 records, high confidence
Eastern Continental Ranges central AB: 200 records, high confidence
Cypress Upland south AB / SK: 130 records, high confidence
Western Alberta Upland central AB: 24 records, high confidence
Fescue Grassland south AB: 3 records, low confidence

These are counts of records collected somewhere in the region, which is the resolution of the evidence: the map above shows where inside it. A region with 3 records is not the same claim as one with three hundred, so the count travels with the region. A region missing from this list means nobody has recorded it there, which is not the same as the plant being absent. Records within 900 m of a border count for neither side, because the border is not drawn finely enough to say which one they are on. Source: GBIF occurrence search + PRESERVED_SPECIMEN pass, retrieved 2026-08-24. Boundaries digitised from the National Ecological Framework for Canada v2.2 (Ecological Stratification Working Group 1995), simplified to about 900 m for display: an outline is accurate to roughly a kilometre, not to the metre. How these counts are made.

See every observation, live and current, on GBIF or iNaturalist.

Documented animals

24 documented relationships.

nectar for

Andrena thaspii LaManna et al. 2020
Brown-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Calligrapher Fly Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Central Bumble Bee Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Frigid Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org
Halictus tripartitus LaManna et al. 2020
Halictus virgatellus Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Hemipenthes morioides LaManna et al. 2020
Hoplitis albifrons Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Hoplitis fulgida Specimen records from ecdysis.org
Hylaeus annulatus LaManna et al. 2020
Lasioglossum albipenne LaManna et al. 2020
Lasioglossum marinense LaManna et al. 2020
Lasioglossum nigroviride LaManna et al. 2020
Milbert's Tortoiseshell Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Osmia coloradensis LaManna et al. 2020
Osmia cyanella LaManna et al. 2020
Osmia pusilla LaManna et al. 2020
Osmia tristella LaManna et al. 2020
Parnassius smintheus Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Plebejus idas Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Red-tailed Bumble Bee Specimen records from iNaturalist.org
Two-ranked Bumble Bee LaManna et al. 2020
Yellow Cuckoo Bumble Bee Specimen records from www.bumblebeewatch.org

Also worth knowing

Safety

Toxicity not assessed, absence of a warning is not a guarantee of safety

Edible parts

Leaves?, shoots?

Buying it

About $8–$16 per plant (estimate), usually from a native-plant nursery. Estimate (groundcover default); AB retail as of 2026

Where these numbers came from

Flower detail: not verified, a genus-level estimate