Sedum ternatumMichx.

woodland stonecrop

WFO wfo-0001299782 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g

Sedum ternatum, photographed by Sandra Keller
fig. a Sandra Keller, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-28 / obs. 201741339
Sedum ternatum, photographed by Alina Martin
fig. b Alina Martin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198528877
Sedum ternatum, photographed by Surly Aardvark
fig. c Surly Aardvark, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197557958
Sedum ternatum, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. d Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 195452096
Sedum ternatum, photographed by Craig Martin
fig. e Craig Martin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196635429
Sedum ternatum, photographed by Clay Gibbons
fig. f Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195223557
Sedum ternatum, photographed by Annie Weissman
fig. g Annie Weissman, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194519166

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,211 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 1,211 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 6 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Clausenellia ternata (Michx.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Sedum americanum Banks ex Pursh
  • Sedum deficiens Donn
  • Sedum octogonum hort. ex DC.
  • Sedum portulacoides Willd.
  • Sedum ternatum var. minus Praeger

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.