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Small Fruited Stonecrop

Sedum microcarpum

Small Fruited Stonecrop
Photo: Davidbena, CC BY-SA 4.0

Sedum microcarpum is a small, bushy annual succulent from the Mediterranean region, growing only 5 to 10 cm tall with tiny white flowers. It is a wild species of rocky, sunny ground and is rarely grown in gardens, so its care is best matched to dry, sun-loving stonecrops.

Family
Crassulaceae (Stonecrop family)
Grows as
Succulent, Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry fully between waterings, as it is adapted to winter rain and dry spring conditions.
Soil
Very free-draining, gritty or rocky mix with low organic content.
Temperature
Mild conditions suit it best; protect from hard frost, typically below -5 °C.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Cyprus, S. Türkiye to Jordan and NW. Iraq
Climate
subtropical

About

Sedum microcarpum, commonly known as the small-fruited stonecrop, is a species of Sedum from the family Crassulaceae. It is native to Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Cyprus, and Syria. The plant is a short, bushy annual with white flowers. The leaves are succulent, narrowly oblong, and usually tinted red.

Where it grows

Sedum microcarpum can be found all throughout the Mediterranean woodlands and shrublands, as also in semi-steppe shrublands.

Other Sedum plants

Stonecrop · Biting Stonecrop · White Stonecrop · Sedum brissemoretii · Broad Leaved Stonecrop · Thick-leaf stonecrop · Tree stonecrop · Euxinian Stonecrop · Sedum humifusum · Spearleaf stonecrop · Needle stonecrop · Mexican stonecrop

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sedum microcarpum 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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