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White Stonecrop - Sedum album
Low to short, mat forming, often rather straggling plant. Leaves alternate, bright green, often tinged red. Flowers white 6 to 9 mm in much branched flat topped clusters on erect stems; follicles pink, erect.
There are some similar white or pink flowered species. Sedum dasyphyllum and S anglicum have been recorded in VC55.
Glabrous; leaves cylindrical/oblong; petals fused into short calyx-tube at base.
Rocky and stony places.
June to August.
Perennial - occasionally establishes in the wild.
Occasional throughout Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 38 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- White Stonecrop
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Saxifragales
- Family:
- Crassulaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 69
- First record:
- 23/06/2006 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 24/06/2023 (Graves, Hazel)
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