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Scientific name:

Sedum kamtschaticum

Vernacular name:

Stonecrop, Kamchatka


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Kamchatka Stonecrop

Scientific name: Sedum kamtschaticum Mast.

Diagnostic features
Glabrous perennial with ascending non-rooting stems to 30cm but no over-wintering shoots.
Leaves alternate to opposite, 1.5-5cm, flat, obovate to linear-oblanceolate, serrate distally.
Flowers in corymbose panicle.
Petals 5, 5-8mm, orange- to pale yellow.

Chromosome number: (2n=32, 48, 64).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; garden relic or throwout.

Distribution
Scattered in England; East Asia.

This species is keyed out on Page 2817 in the Text Key.

Note
Variable in habit and leaf-shape; some or all of our plants are Sedum kamtschaticum Mast. var. middendorfianum (Maxim.) R.T. Clausen, with very narrow leaves.

Sedum kamtschaticum
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