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Sedum acre
The plant likes full sun. It is suitable for the rock garden or portable containers.
In a pot, water after the substrate has dried out. When placing in a rock garden, water at your own discretion.
The plant is frost hardy, withstanding temperatures down to -34.4 °C.
Due to its decorative flowers with yellow centres, the succulent is nicknamed the golden stonecrop. These brighten up the rock gardens in which this basic rock plant is found. It can be grown almost anywhere and is not very demanding.
Sedum acre is known in Czech as Stonecrop, also known as Goldmoss Stonecrop because of its flower. It is native to Europe, where it has spread to North America, Japan and New Zealand. Here it grows in the wild on rockeries and cliff faces or hills. It also seeks out the edges of walls.
The partially deciduous leaves turn yellow-green and are elliptical in shape. The stems branch and form shoots that creep on. Naturally dead leaves are commonly found at the base of the stem.
The star-shaped, five-petalled flowers are yellow in colour, giving the succulent its nickname. They bloom singly just above the leaves during the summer.
It is a fairly common rock garden plant. These plants are frost hardy, requiring only minimal attention and care. They are suitable for the rock garden or in portable containers, and if given enough light and permeable soil, can handle living in very inhospitable conditions. Succulents should be repotted every once in a while to give them enough nutrients for their growth. Water only during prolonged droughts and usually do not water in winter.