Stoncrops

Sedum confertiflorum Common Navelwort Spanish Stonecrop Coastal Stonecrop



Stonecrop Family - Crassulaceae

Mossy Stonecrop      Crassula tillaea

Native from Macaronesia and western Europe, through the Mediterranean Region to the Arabian Peninsula. A minuscule plant, requiring hands and knees!

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Vaillant's Pygmyweed      Crassula vaillantii

Native in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Central Asian regions as well as in southern Africa.

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Pale Stonecrop      Petrosedum sediforme

(Sedum nicaeense) Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. Variable in its leaf shape according to growing conditions.

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     Sedum confertiflorum

Native from North-east Greece and southern Bulgaria to Central Turkey. An erect annual, 5-12cm tall, stems simple or with a few branches, tending to be thicker towards the top. Leaves alternate, sessile, narrowly ovate to linear. Flowers with 5 petals, white or pale pink. Sepals joined to about halfway. Stamens 10, anthers red or dark purple. Ripe fruits suberect.

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Coastal Stonecrop      Sedum litoreum

Native to the central and eastern Mediterranean Region. Variable according to growing conditions. Hairless, relatively robust annual, 4-12cm tall. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic to obovate. Flowers with 5 petals, pale yellow. Stamens usually 5, anthers small, globose, red or yellow. Ripe fruits spreading, star-like.

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Tufted Stonecrop      Sedum cespitosum

Sedum caespitosum Native throughout the Mediterranean Region to the Balkans, Black Sea area and through to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. An annual, 2-6cm tall. Leaves alternate, sessile. Flowers with 4-5 petals, white or reddish with a green or red keel. Stamens 4-5, anthers red or yellowish. Ripe fruits spreading, star-like.

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Spanish Stonecrop      Sedum hispanicum

Native to the central and eastern Mediterranean Region, eastwards through the Black Sea area, Caucasus, Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. Annual or short-lived perennial with non-flowering shoots at the base, stems 4-15cm long. Leaves densely glandular-pubescent in the upper part of the plant, alternate, imbricate, narrowly elliptical to linear. Flowers subsessile with 6-7 petals, white with pink midvein. Stamens 6-7, anthers reddish-purple. Ripe fruits spreading, star-like.

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Common Navelwort      Umbilicus rupestris

Native from Macaronesia and western Europe through the Mediterranean Region to the Arabian Peninsula. Flowers in a dense, single spike, carried slightly drooping.

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Horizontal Navelwort      Umbilicus horizontalis

Native from Macaronesia through the Mediterranean Region to the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Flowers in a dense, single spike, carried horizontally.

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