Caucasian-stonecrop - Phedimus spurius
Low to short, creeping, mat forming plant with short, non-flowering shoots. Leaves to 2.5 cm, roughly oval, alternate, toothed towards the apex. Flowers reddish purple, 9 to 12 mm long in dense clusters with petals erect.
Waste and rocky places often naturalised from gardens.
July and August.
Perennial
Scattered throughout most of Britain.
Occasional as a wild plant in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 10 of the 617 tetrads.
David Nicholls
Leire Cutting
30 July 2014
Peter Smith
Rothley
23 June 2014
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Footpath off Park Road
11 July 2020
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
05 August 2011
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Species profile
- Common names
- Caucasian-stonecrop
- Species group:
- flowering plant
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Saxifragales
- Family:
- Crassulaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 11
- First record:
- 05/08/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 27/06/2023 (Bell, Melinda)
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Graham Calow
Witherley Churchyard
01 August 2015
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Footpath off Park Road
11 July 2020
David Nicholls
Leire Cutting
30 July 2014
Graham Calow
Jubilee Walk, Leire
05 August 2011
Graham Calow
Off Stanton Road, Elmesthorpe
26 July 2016
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Footpath off Park Road
11 July 2020
Graham Calow
Sapcote, Footpath off Park Road
11 July 2020
