English: Broadleaf Stonecrop.
Ecology: often specially targeted by slugs; immune to the predations of rabbits.
Region: western N. America, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California.
Habitat: shaded situations and glades on cliffs and rocky slopes; elevations from sea level to 1600 metres; coastal cliffs and ledges, or in the gravelly soil of the foothills; hardy down to around -15°c; easily grown plant; succeeds in most soils, poor soils, on walls, prefers a fertile well-drained soil; prefers a sunny position, tolerates some shade; drought tolerant.
Content: alkaloids, sedine, sedamine.
Use: food, leaves, raw or cooked; medicine; ornamental, ground cover.
BotanyHerb; evergreen; perennial; 5 cm tall; mat-forming plant with prostrate to ascending stems, producing short sterile stems.
Root: fibrous; creeping rhizome.
Stem: much-branched stems, rhizomatous, procumbent or creeping.
Inflorescence: blooming stems 3 to 6 cm long.
Flowers: sweetly fragrant.
Pollination: by insects, self.