English: Love Restorer; Love-restoring Stonecrop; Woundwort; Love fatwort.
German: Fetthenne.
Synonym: Sedum anacampseros.
Region: Central Europe, France, northern Spain, Italy, Switzerland; Alps, Pyrenees, Apennines.
Habitat: rocks in mountains; moderately cold-hardy plant; tolerating temperatures to 20°C; shade tolerant; prefers a sunny position; succeeds in most soils, prefers a fertile well-drained, but moist soil; dislikes lime; drought tolerant; 1400 and 2500 meters, on rocks with acidic soil.
Content: alkaloids, sedine, sedamine.
Ecology: immune to the predations of rabbits.
Use: food, leaves, raw or cooked, bitter, as a vegetable in soups; medicine; green roof and green wall systems; ornamental, ground cover.
BotanyHerb, perennial; glabrous; 10 to 30 to 50 cm tall; spreads rapidly at the roots; dies down over the winter.
Root: tuberous rootstock.
Stems: cluster of sparsely-branched, decumbent;curved; ascending; 10 cm tall.
Leaves: unstalked; opposite; grow spirally; 1 to 3 cm long; flesh-like; elliptic to ovate.
Inflorescence: semi-spherical umbel.
Flowers: pale mauve to purple; hermaphroditic; 5 merous; sepals are 2 to 4 mm long, hook-shaped, inwardly curved; petals are 4 to 5 mm long, pinkish red to dark red on top, bluish and green keeled on the underside; blooming in July and August.
Pollination: by bees, lepidoptera.