Alpine Stonecrop (Sedum alpestre)
Description:
Alpine stonecrop (Sedum alpestre) is up to 8 cm tall, hairless plant that also develops densely leafy non-flowering shoots during flowering. Leaves are fleshy, round in cross-section. Flowers have 5 petals up to twice as long as sepals and blunt (not pointed as in six-angled stonecrop). It flowers from June to September in snow hollows on rocky and scree areas in limestone-poor regions, mainly on silicate. It is distributed in central and southern European mountains, 1300-2400 m altitude. It also grows in Slovenia, but is not common.
The description was contributed by user malenka.
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