Family |
Crassulaceae
Sedum album
L.
Sedum album L.
First published in Sp. Pl.: 432 (1753).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 2, p. 185, Pl. LXVIII, 3; 1970)
Description
Life-form & habit: Hairless, loosely tufted perennial with creeping rhizomes, sterile shoots and upright flowering stems, 5–18 cm tall.
Leaves: Alternate, fleshy, 4–12 mm long, rounded in cross-section but slightly flattened above; linear-cylindrical to ovate-rounded, with blunt tips.
Inflorescence & flowers: Short-stalked, five-parted flowers in more or less flat-topped cymes. Petals are white, rarely pink, 2–4 mm long; stamens number ten.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: Flowering June–August.
Habitat & elevation: Rocks in mountain areas.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Jabal Kneisse, Falougha, Jouit spring, Bcharre, the Cedars, Sir, Ehden, Jabal Qamoua, Foumm el Mizhab, Sannine and Tannourine.
Syrian distribution: Slenfe.
Native range: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine.
Introduced into: Altay, Baltic States, Belarus, British Columbia, California, Great Britain, Illinois, Indiana, Ireland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Brunswick, New Jersey, New York, Northwest European Russia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Poland, Québec, Tasmania, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Siberia, West Virginia.