English: Roseflower Stonecrop.
Region: western N. America, Oregon, California
Habitat: serpentine bluffs; elevations from 30 to 140 metres; moderately cold-hardy plant; grows best if given a moist, but well-drained, fairly fertile soil in a sunny position; well in quite dry positions, in poor soils and in light shade; very drought tolerant.
Content: alkaloids, sedine, sedamine; alkaloids, tannins, cyanogenic compounds, flavanoids.
Ecology: often specially targeted by slugs; immune to the predations of rabbits.
Use: food, ± edible leaves and young blooming stems, bitter, acrid or peppery flavours; leaves, raw, rolled together with salt grass,
Distichlis spicata; ornamental.
BotanyHerb; stout; evergreen; perennial; 30 cm tall.
Stem: cluster of stems; forming offsets in axils of rosette leaves rather than on a rootstock or creeping stem.
Leaves: offsets in axils of rosette leaves rather than on a rootstock or creeping stem.
Flowers: pink.
Pollination: by insects.