Sedum dasyphyllum 2 - Buffalo Botanical Gardens

''Sedum dasyphyllum'', also named ''Sedum burnatii'' and commonly known as Corsican stonecrop or thick-leaved stonecrop, is a low-growing succulent

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...

of the genus ''

Sedum ''Sedum'' is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, members of which are commonly known as stonecrops. The genus has been described as containing up to 600 species, subsequently reduced to 400–500. They are leaf succul ...

'' in the family ''

Crassulaceae The Crassulaceae (from Latin ''crassus'', thick), also known as the stonecrop family or the orpine family, are a diverse family of dicotyledon flowering plants characterized by succulent leaves and a unique form of photosynthesis, known as Cr ...

''.

Description

It is a small perennial plant with green/turquoise or gray/green opposite leaves and a creeping

stem Stem or STEM may refer to: Plant structures * Plant stem, a plant's aboveground axis, made of vascular tissue, off which leaves and flowers hang * Stipe (botany), a stalk to support some other structure * Stipe (mycology), the stem of a mushr ...

forming shrubs. Its flowers are white and small with little black dots on the

petal Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers. They are often brightly colored or unusually shaped to attract pollinators. All of the petals of a flower are collectively known as the ''corolla''. Petals are usuall ...

s and green ovaries. The ''Sedum dasyphyllum'', typical of the

Mediterranean region In biogeography, the Mediterranean Basin (; also known as the Mediterranean Region or sometimes Mediterranea) is the region of lands around the Mediterranean Sea that have mostly a Mediterranean climate, with mild to cool, rainy winters and ...

, usually grows among the rocks, especially among the

tuff Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock ...

walls of rural areas.

Gallery

File:Sedum dasyphyllum 1 - Buffalo Botanical Gardens.jpg, A shrub at Buffalo Botanical Garden File:Sedumdasyphyllum.jpg, Detail of leaves File:Sedum dasyphyllum (1) 6.jpg, Flowers

Subspecies and varieties

*''Sedum dasyphyllum'' subsp. ''dasyphyllum''''Sedum dasyphyllum'' subsp. ''dasyphyllum'' on tela-botanica.org
/ref> *''Sedum dasyphyllum'' subsp. ''glanduliferum'' *''Sedum dasyphyllum'' subsp. ''granatense'' *''Sedum dasyphyllum'' var. ''microphyllum''

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dasyphyllum ''Dasyphyllum'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is distributed in South America, with several species in southeastern Brazil.Garden plants Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus