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Penthorum sedoides
Also called Virginia Penthorum, Virginia Stonecrop
Penthorum sedoides, known by the common name ditch stonecrop, is a perennial forb native to the eastern United States and Canada which produces small white flowers in summer.
Penthorum sedoides is widely distributed in the United States and Canada. It has been recorded in most states excepting western ones. Similarly, in Canada it has been recorded in the eastern provinces of Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec, as well as in British Columbia. It is listed as a species of special concern by the state of Rhode Island. Penthorum sedoides is only native to the eastern half of the continent, in the Pacific Northwest it is an introduced species found in commercial cranberry bogs. In Virginia, Penthorum sedoides grows in habitats such as alluvial swamps, floodplain pools, rocky or sandy shores, fens, marshes, beaver ponds, and disturbed wetlands.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Penthorum sedoides by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
