Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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