Caucasian-stonecrop
Scientific name: Sedum spurium M. Bieb.
Diagnostic features
Glabrous perennial.
Stems decumbent or procumbent, rooting along length, to 20cm.
Leaves usually opposite, 1.5-3cm, dorsiventral, crenate-serrate, strongly papillose at margin, scarcely petiolate.
Flowers in corymbose panicle, mostly pedicellate.
Petals 5, 8-12mm, pink to reddish-purple, rarely white.
Chromosome number: (2n=28).
Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; commonly grown in gardens and very persistent as escape, relic or throwout.
Distribution
Very scattered throughout British Isles except North Scotland; Caucasus.
This species is keyed out on Page 2823 in the Text Key. |
