English: Tasteless Stonecrop.
Name: sexangulare means six-angled, referring to the leaves.
Region: Europe, Findland to France, east to European Russia, Ciscaucasia, Bulgaria, Greece; naturalized on old walls in a few places in Britain.
Habitat: dry, sandy and stony soils; moderately cold-hardy plant; prefers moist, but well-drained, fairly fertile soil in a sunny position; wet or dry sandy soil.
Content: alkaloids, tannins, cyanogenic, flavanoids.
Use: food; in green roof systems; food, edible leaves, raw or cooked; ornamental, easy, tough, low maintenance plant, on stone walls, between paving stones or along path edges, parking strips and in container.
BotanyHerb; evergreen; perennial; succulent; loosely-tufted, mat-forming plant, spreading by means of stolons; 5 to 15 cm tall.
Leaves: turn a pretty copper colour when growing in full sun; six spirals of leaves.
Flowers: yellow; star-shaped flowers, blooming in June and July.
Pollination: by bees, insects.
TaxonomySimilar to
Sedum acre, but has shorter and denser leaves.