Scientific Name

Sedum acre L.

Family

Crassulaceae

Common Names

bitter stonecrop, common stonecrop, gold moss, gold moss sedum, golden carpet stonecrop, goldmoss sedum, goldmoss stonecrop, houseleek, mossy stonecrop, pepperwort, sharp stonecrop, stonecrop, wall grass, wall pepper, wall-pepper, yellow sedum, yellow stonecrop

Origin

Native to northern Africa (i.e. Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia), Europe (i.e. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, France, Portugal and Spain) western Asia (i.e. Turkey) and Russia.

Naturalised Distribution

This species is becoming widely naturalised in the cooler districts of eastern Australia. It is naturalised in the tableland districts of eastern New South Wales, in north-eastern Victoria and in Tasmania. It was recently also recorded in the cooler upland parts of south-eastern Queensland and is sparingly naturalised in the ACT.

Naturalised in overseas in Japan, New Zealand and North America (i.e. the USA and Canada).

Notes

Common stonecrop (Sedum acre) is regarded as a minor environmental weed in New South Wales and Tasmania.