English: Crooked Yellow Stonecrop.
Synonym: Sedum rupestre; Petrosedum reflexum; Vitrosedum reflexum; Rupestre tripmadam; Syn-petrophyllum reflexa; Sedum forsterianum; Sedum pruinatum.
Region: Europe, Norway to France and Spain, east to Sweden, Poland, Ukraine and Greece
Habitat: walls, shingle; warm grassy places on sandy soils; avoids acid soils; moderately cold-hardy plant, tolerating temperatures down to around -15°c; prefers a sunny position, tolerant of light shade; succeeds in most soils, prefers a fertile well-drained, sandy to gravelly soils of moderate to low fertility; very drought tolerant; dry soils; on a wall.
Ecology: often specially targeted by slugs; immune to the predations of rabbits.
Content: alkaloids, sedine, sedamine; tannins, cyanogenic compounds; flavanoids.
Use: food, young leafy tips for seasoning or eaten in soups and salads; green roof and green wall systems; ornamental, ground cover.
BotanyHerb; evergreen; perennial; succulent; mat-forming; 10 cm tall.
Stem: cluster of procumbent, unbranched stems up to 10 cm tall; more or less woody at their base.
Pollination: by bees, flies, lepidoptera, self.