| Sedum villosum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Genus: | Sedum |
| Species: | S. villosum
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| Binomial name | |
| Sedum villosum | |
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Sedum villosum, known as the hairy stonecrop[2] or purple stonecrop,[3] is a biennial to perennial flowering plant. Its leaves, which are 3–8 mm (0.1–0.3 in) long and may be reddish in colour, are generally covered with hairs, although S. villosum var. glabratum may have hairless leaves. Individual flowers have five pink petals, each up to 5 mm (0.2 in) long.[4]
It is native to Greenland, Iceland and northern and central Europe, east to Lithuania and Poland. It has also been recorded from islands in south-eastern Canada.[5] Within Britain, it is found as far south as mid-Yorkshire.[4] Compared to other species in the genus Sedum, it is unusual in preferring damp habitats.[5]
- ^ a b "Sedum villosum", The Plant List, retrieved 2015-02-26
- ^ BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Sedum villosum". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 November 2015.
- ^ a b Stace, Clive (2010), New Flora of the British Isles (3rd ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-70772-5, p. 141
- ^ a b Eggli, Urs, ed. (2003), Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Crassulaceae, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-41965-5, pp. 329–330