Stonecrop Sedum
L'Orpin de Nice
Native to Europe and the Mediterranean region.
Thermophilic - heat loving - species growing on very dry, rocky, calcareous soils.
It grows as mats of erect reddish stems with blue-green fleshy sessile leaves which are glaucous and hairless. The inflorescence is a panicle of yellow flowers June through August.
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| Leaf Detail |
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| Near the castle ruins at Saint Saturnin-lès-Apt, Luberon,9.16.14 |
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| Illustration by PJ Redouté; published in Plantarum Historia Succlentarum, 1799 - 1837 |
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| Before flowering |
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| Flower detail |
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