Taxon: Sedum acre L.

• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Sedum acre var. majus (no accessions)

Common names:

• biting stonecrop   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• mossy stonecrop   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – English
  
• stonecrop   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• wall-grass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• wall-pepper   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• gul fetknopp   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed14; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Sedum acre from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand

• also cultivated

References:

• 't Hart, H. & C. E. Jarvis. 1993. Typification of Linnaeus's names for European species of Sedum subgen. Sedum (Crassulaceae). Taxon 42:400. [lectotypify].
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan. [mentions].
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Sedum acre.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Sedum acre.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Sedum acre.

Check other web resources for Sedum acre L.:

• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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