Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Biting Stonecrop, Sedum acre, Grafán na gcloch
Photographs: Bantry, Co.Cork

Biting Stonecrop / Wall Pepper
Sedum acre
Grafán na gcloch
Family: Crassulaceae

Flowering: June-August. Succulent perennial. Native.

Yellow flowers with 5 petals in small,branched cymes. The small fleshy leaves are broadest at the base with blunt points and have a peppery taste. Mat-forming growth habit, height to 10cm.

Mainly grows on limestone rocks and walls, but also found on dunes

Similar: Tasteless Stonecrop, Sedum sexangulare has smaller flowers and leaves without a peppery taste. Very rare. Introduced.

Biting Stonecrop, Sedum acre, Grafán na gcloch

Biting Stonecrop, Sedum acre, Grafán na gcloch
Biting Stonecrop, Sedum acre, Grafán na gcloch

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