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Bayer Code : sedru
Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Crassula rubens L.
Classification: Crassulaceae, Dicotyledonous
Common name: red stonecrop
Synonym(s) of Common name:
Name per country: DE : Rötliche Fetthenne ; FR : sédum rougeâtre ; IT : borracina arrossata ; PT : ; EN : red stonecrop ;
Biological type: Annual
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- Height: 5-15 cm. Plant pubescent, glandular, reddish, with a stout stock.
- Stem erect, simple or branched.
- Lower leaves in rosette and spatulate. Later leaves alternate, glabrous, scattered, linear, cylindric, 10-15 mm long, sessile, spreading-erect. Leaves dying at flowering.
- Flowers white-pinky, sessile, on a single side in pubescent-glandular cyme ; 5 sepals ovate -deltoid; 5 petals lanceolate, aristate, 3 times longer than the calyx ; 5 stamens.
- Fruit 5-carpelled, opened like a cup, tuberculate, grainy.
- Biological type: annual.
Ecological profile (click on flags): Present Rare