Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Sedum acre

Common name

Bitter Stonecrop, Wall-pepper, Common Stonecrop

Family

Crassulaceae

Where found

Grassy areas and amongst rocks, often at higher altitudes. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and ACT. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Introduced perennial herb to 0.25 m high or creeping, mat-forming, rooting at the nodes. More or less fleshy. Stems hairless, yellow-green. Leaves alternating along the stems, overlapping, 0.3–0.6 cm long, triangular to oval, thick, with a slight spur at the base, tips blunt.. Flowers bright yellow, with 5 petals each 6–8 mm long. Flowers in clusters 1–5 cm long, on 2 or 3 short branches. Flowers summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sedum~acre (accessed 6 February, 2021)