Seasonal Wild Flowers

English Stonecrop

Sedum anglicum

Crassulaceae

June to September

It is mainly coastal and is most common in the Northwest

and the Southwest.

It is thinly scattered inland.

See the BSBI distribution map for English Stonecrop

It grows by the sea on rocks, dunes, shingle and dry

grassland.

Inland it grows on walls, hedge banks and in quarries.

English Stonecrop is a a native, creeping, mat-forming,

perennial herb, growing up to 5cm.

Flowers are 12mm across with 5 lanceolate, white petals,

10 stamens and 5 roundish carpels.

The carpels start of white and turn pink, giving the flowers

a pink tinge.

Leaves are small, green and fleshy, turning red on aging.

English stonecrop is a major component of eco-roofs,

such as the one at Lakeland, Windermere, Cumbria.

English Stonecrop

Flowerhead

10 stamens, 5 rounded carpels

Older carpels turning pink

Carpels giving pink appearance

Fleshy leaves

Reddened leaves

Eco-roof, Lakeland

English stonecrop - Eco-roof,

Lakeland