''Sedum hispanicum'', the Spanish stonecrop, is a species of plant 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

Annual, 5–15 cm, glabrous or somewhat pubescent. Stems branching. Leaves alternate, 7–10 mm, linear, rounded. Flowers usually 6-merous, sometimes 7-9-merous, in unilateral cymes. Sepals ovate-acute. Petals white, with a purple midrib, 5–7 mm, lanceolate, acuminate. Carpels stellate.

Flowering

March–June.

Habitat

Rocks.

Distribution

Coast, lower, middle and upper mountains, Beqaa, Antilebanon.

Geographic area

Syria,

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...

, the Palestine region, Western Asia, the

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, and Switzerland. Notwithstanding its specific name this stonecrop is not found in Spain. ''Sedum'' is the Latin name of the adjoining genus, ''Sempervivum'', houseleek. It is derived from ''sedare'', to appease, to tranquillize, since the houseleek cultivated on housetops was supposed to take away the thunder, or probably because the crushed leaves used in plasters have a sedative action.Mustapha Nehmeh, Wild Flowers Of Lebanon, National Council For Scientific Research,1978,pages 175,176.

References

*Georges Tohme& Henriette Tohme, IIIustrated Flora of Lebanon, National Council For Scientific Research, Second Edition 2014. {{Taxonbar, from=Q3477640 hispanicum Flora of Lebanon and Syria Flora of Palestine (region) Flora of Southeastern Europe Flora of Switzerland Plants described in 1755 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus