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Love Restoring Stonecrop

Hylotelephium anacampseros

Also called Love Restorer

Love Restoring Stonecrop
Photo: Luca Fornasari, CC BY 4.0

Love restoring stonecrop is a hardy, succulent perennial from sunny, rocky mountain slopes in southwestern Europe, forming small rosettes on woody underground stems. It grows best in full sun with sharp drainage and very little water.

Family
Crassulaceae (Stonecrop family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly, letting the soil dry out fully between waterings, and avoid wet soil in winter.
Soil
Gritty, fast-draining mix such as cactus compost with added grit or stone.
Temperature
Hardy to around -15 °C; protect from prolonged waterlogging in cold weather.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Pyrenees, SW. & SC. Alps, Appennini
Climate
temperate

About

Hylotelephium anacampseros, the love-restoring stonecrop, is a species of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae. This perennial plant grows on sunny rocky terrains, in mountains of southwestern Europe.

Where it grows

It is a southwestern European species, growing in sunny, rocky habitats with siliceous soil from 1,000 to 2,700 m (3,300 to 8,900 ft) above sea level.

Other Hylotelephium plants

Cliff Stonecrop · Azure Stonecrop · Garden stonecrop · Pink Mongolian Stonecrop · Hylotelephium sieboldii · Showy stonecrop · Allegheny stonecrop · Garden stonecrop · Orpine · Stonecrop

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hylotelephium anacampseros by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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