Stonecrop Family:-

Stonecrop family are "non-woody plants, more or less fleshy or succulent, the undivided leaves with very short or no stalks and no stipules at their base. All except Pink Stonecrop are hairless, and all except Mossy Stonecrop perennials". from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978.

Stonecrop Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Sedge Carex to Stonecrop Wild Flower Families Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

English Stonecrop

Sedum anglicum

June-August

This creeping perennial herb of base-poor substrates occurs on rocks, dunes and shingle, and is also known from dry grassland. It is a characteristic plant of open ground on acidic rock outcrops near the sea. It also grows on old walls, rocky hedge banks, and quarries and mine spoil on acidic substrates. 0-1080 m (Snowdon, Caerns.).

Flower from Meallon Udrigle on 27 June

Flowers from Melvaig in Ross on 21 June

Foliage from Shieldaig on 20 June

Form from Melvaig on 21 June

Large Yellow Stonecrop

(Jenny's Stonecrop)

Sedum reflexum

July-August

Gardens and Walls (on walls and banks usually as a garden escape)

Flowers

Flower

Form in July

Mossy Stonecrop

Crassula tillaea

May

A tiny annual, growing on bare, often compacted, sandy or gravelly ground. It is often found on rutted tracks, paths and other areas where the ground is kept open by disturbance and periodic flooding. It can withstand only minimal competition from other vegetation. Lowland.

Form in May

Form from Thetford in May

Foliage from Thetford in May

Orpine

Sedum telephium

July-September

A perennial herb, found on wood-borders, hedge banks, roadsides, rocky banks and in limestone pavement, often in very small but very persistent colonies. It also occurs as an uncommon ancient woodland plant, but sometimes fails to flower in this habitat. 0-455 m (Falcon Clints, Co. Durham).

Form on 22 August

Form in September

Form on 22 August

Flower in October

Flowers in October

Bee and Ladybird on Flower in August

Flower on 22 August

Foliage on 22 August

Foliage in August

Pink Stonecrop

(Purple Stonecrop, Hairy Stonecrop)

Sedum villosum

July-August

A small biennial or perennial herb which grows in at least slightly base-enriched, wet, stony ground and on streamsides in hilly areas, and in montane, often bryophyte-rich, flushes. From near sea level to 1100 m (Breadalbanes, Mid Perth), but mostly between 250 m and 500 m.

Rock Stonecrop

Sedum forsteranum

June-July

A mat-forming perennial herb of open, dry, well-drained habitats, including rocks and screes, wooded cliffs and gullies. Naturalised colonies are found in churchyards, on waste ground, mine waste, walls and railway land. Lowland to 600 m as native (Llyn y Fan Fach, Carms.).

Rose-Root

Sedum rosea

May-June

A rhizomatous perennial herb which grows on sea-cliffs and in mountains in rock crevices and on moist rock ledges. Very rarely, in W. Ireland, it occurs on coastal limestone pavement. In montane habitats it usually occupies sites which are at least slightly base-enriched. Although descending to sea level in N.W. Britain and Ireland, it is usually found above 300 m, reaching 1160 m on Ben Lawers (Mid Perth).

Flowers in June

Flower in June

Foliage from Stoer in Sutherland

Foliage in June

Form in May

Form in June

Thick-leaved Stonecrop

Sedum dasyphyllum

June-July

A small perennial herb with ascending stems readily rooting at the base which provide an anchorage to the crumbling surfaces of old walls on which it characteristically grows. Other habitats include quarries, cemeteries and limestone rocks. Lowland.

Wall Pennywort

(Navelwort)

Umbilicus rupestris

June-August

A perennial herb, growing on walls, in rock crevices and on stony hedge banks, mainly on acidic substrates. In Cornwall it has even been seen growing as an epiphyte on the boughs of large trees. 0-550 m (Berwyn Mountains near Pistyll Rhaiadr, Monts.).

Flower from County Clare in June

Flowers from County Clare in June

Form from County Clare in June

Foliage from County Clare in June

Foliage from County Clare

Part of Form on Tree from County Clare on 17 June

Form on Tree from County Clare on 17 June

Form from County Clare

Wall-Pepper

(Goldmoss Stonecrop, Biting Stonecrop)

Sedum acre

June-July

A perennial herb of dry, undisturbed and open habitats on skeletal, or virtually non-existent, acidic or basic soils. Typical natural habitats include shingle, sand dunes, cliffs and steeply sloping, S.-facing rocks. It is also frequent on walls, roofs, gravel tracks, pavements and road verges. It is resistant to grazing. 0-500 m (Arncliffe, Mid-W. Yorks.), with an exceptional record at 845 m on Great Dun Fell (Westmorland).

Flower from Cuxton of Kent in June

Flowers from Kidwelly on 13 July

Form from Cuxton in June

Form in Gutter in July

Form from Strood in Kent in July

White Stonecrop

(Small Houseleek)

Sedum album

July

This creeping perennial herb grows on open, dry sites, such as limestone rocks, walls, roofs, the concrete of old airfield runways, maritime shingle, paths and gravel on graves. 0-570 m (Hartside, Cumberland).

Flower in July

Flowers in July

Foliage from Hothfield

Form from Kent on 11 July

Form from Hothfield