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habit (Photo: Greg Jordan)
habit in fruit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
habit growing on a wall (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
leaves (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
close-up of stem and leaves (Photo: Greg Jordan)
close-up of flowers (Photo: Greg Jordan)
close-up of mature fruit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
young plant (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
Scientific Name
Sedum rupestre L.
Synonyms
Sedum reflexum L.
Family
Crassulaceae
Common Names
blue spruce stonecrop, blue stonecrop, crooked yellow stonecrop, goldmoss, Jenny's stonecrop, reflexed stonecrop, rock stonecrop, sedum, small houseleek, St. Vincent's rock stonecrop, stonecrop, yellow stonecrop
Origin
Native to Europe (i.e. Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Albania, Greece, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia and Spain) and south-western Russia.
Naturalised Distribution
Naturalised in some parts of south-eastern Australia (i.e. in the southern tablelands region in New South Wales, in Victoria and in Tasmania). It is also sparingly naturalised in the ACT.
Notes
Rock stonecrop (Sedum rupestre) is a minor environmental weed in Tasmania and a potential environmental weed or "sleeper weed" in other parts of south-eastern Australia. This garden escape has become naturalised in disturbed areas in cooler temperate regions.
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