Sedum hispanicum
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Genus: | Sedum |
| Species: | S. hispanicum |
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Sedum hispanicum L. |
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Sedum hispanicum, the Spanish stonecrop, is a species of plant in the Crassulaceae family.
Annual, 5-15 cm, glabrous or somewhat pubescent. Stems branching. Leaves alternate, 7-10 mm, linear, rounded. Flowers usually 6-merous, sometimes 7-9-merous, in unilateral cymes. Sepals ovate-acute. Petals white, with a purple midrib, 5-7 mm, lanceolate, acuminate. Carpels stellate.
March-June.
Rocks.
Coast, lower, middle and upper mountains, Beqaa, Antilebanon.
Syria, Lebanon, Palestine. Western Asia, Balkans, Italy, Switzerland.
Notwithstanding its specific name this stonecrop is not found in Spain. Sedum is the Latin name of the adjoining genus, Sempervivum, houseleek. It is derived from sedare, to appease, to tranquillize, since the houseleek cultivated on housetops was supposed to take away the thunder, or probably because the crushed leaves used in plasters have a sedative action.
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