SEDUM CEPAEA

Family and Genus:- See- CRASSULACEAE

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Anacampseros cepaea, Cepaea caesalpini.

Meaning:- Sedum (L) A name used by the Roman naturalist and philosopher

Pliny, reference to the plants habit of ''sitting'' on rocks etc.

Cepaea (Gr) Grown in gardens.

General description:- Annual or biennial, perhaps sometimes perennial

Stem:-

1) 15-40 cm, weak, erect or ascending, pubescent.

Leaves:-

1) Mostly opposite or whorled, obovate or oblanceolate-spathulate, flat, glabrous,

the lower ones petiolate.

Flowers:-

1) 5 petalled, pedicellate, in a long, diffuse panicle.

2) Petals, 5 mm, obovate-ovate, aristate, pale pink or white with a red, mid-vein

pubescent.

Fruit:-

1) Follicles, erect, longitudinally grooved, whitish.

Key features:-

1) Leaves, entire, mostly opposite or whorled.

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Habitat:- Slightly damp and shady, rocky habitats in gorges, open dry shrubby

vegetation, open woodland, stone walls between terraced olive groves, etc., mostly

on limestone. 0-1300 (-1700) m.

Distribution:- Throughout Greece, but rare in the S Aegean area. - S Europe, W

Anatolia, cyrenaica. Very rare on Crete known only from a few locations in west

Crete.

Flowering time:- May-July.

Photos by:- Fotis Samaritakis