Sedum ochroleucum

Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : sedoo

Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Sedum ochroleucum subsp. ochroleucum Chaix, Sedum anopetalum A. P. de Candolle

Classification: Crassulaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: stonecrop

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Ockergelbe Fetthenne ; FR : sédum à pétales droits ; IT : borracina biancastra ; EN : stonecrop ;

Biological type: Perennial

Seedling:

- Plant propagates overall vegetatively; establishment from seedling is rare.

Adult plant:

- Height: 15-25 cm. Plant glabrous, glaucous, of which arise non-flowering shoots.

- Stem ascending, prostrate at base, nearly white or pinky.

- Leaves lower cylindric, somewhat flattened, mucronate, attenuate at base, punctate, erect. Cauline leaves erect in pseudo-bracts.

- Flower very pale-yellow, subsessile, corymb always straight corymb. Sepals lanceolate ; petals erect, linear, awl -like.

- Cultivated as ornamental plant for rock gardens. Melliferous. Rare in crops.

- Biological type: perennial.

Ecological profile (click on flags): Rare