Native to:
Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Spain, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia

SEDUM CESPITOSUM

Family:- CRASSULACEAE

Common Names:- Broad-leaved stonecrop

Synonyms:- Aithales cespitosa, Crassula cespitosa, Crassula cespitosa,

Procrassula magnolii, Sedum rubens subsp. cespitosum.

Meaning:- Sedum (L) A name used by the Roman naturalist and philosopher

Pliny, reference to the plants habit of ''sitting'' on rocks etc.

Cespitosum (L) Growing in tufts, matted, tussock-forming.

General description:- Low erect usually reddish annual, hairless and often sticky

with glands above.

Stem:-

1) 2-5 cm, erect.

Leaves:-

1) Alternate, imbricate, smooth and usually subterete, ovoid, 3-6 mm.long, greyish

but often flushed with red.

Flowers:-

1) 4- or 5-merous, sessile, in short cymes.

2) Petals, 3 mm, mucronate, white tinged with pink.

3) Stamens 4 or 5.

Fruit:-

1) Follicles, patent, glabrous.

Key features:-

1) Leaves ovoid, imbricate.

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Habitat:- Rocky and gravelly, seasonally wet places in open dry shrubby

vegetation, open coniferous woodland, roadsides, olive groves etc., on various

substrates. 0-1400 m.

Distribution:- Scattered throughout Greece. Widespread and common throughout

the Mediterranean. Limited distribution on Crete mainly central south and the Dikti

mountains. Rare.

Flowering time:- Apr-May.

Photos by:- Zacharias Angourakis