stonecrop

From stone +‎ crop, from the apparent ability of the plant to grow out of bare rock and stone.

stonecrop (countable and uncountable, plural stonecrops)

1. Any of various succulent plants of the Crassulaceae family, native to temperate zones, especially in genus Sedum
   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers:

     A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the bows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.

2. Certain plants of genus Lithospermum, in family Boraginaceae.

• Allegheny stonecrop (Hylotelephium telephioides)
• biting stonecrop (Sedum acre)
• butterfly stonecrop (Hylotelephium spectabile)
• dense stonecrop (Crassula colorata)
• ditch stonecrop (Penthorum sedoides)
• goldmoss stonecrop (Sedum acre)
• ledge stonecrop (Rhodiola spp.)
• mossy stonecrop (Sedum acre)
• musky stonecrop (Crassula moschata)
• orpine stonecrop (Sedum debile)
• orange stonecrop (Phedimus kamtschaticus
• Persian stonecrop (Aethionema grandiflorum)
• reflexed stonecrop (Petrosedum rupestre)
• shore stonecrop (Crassula moschata)
• showy stonecrop (Hylotelephium spectabile)
• Virginia stonecrop, Virginian stonecrop (Penthorum sedoides)
• yellow stonecrop (Sedum acre, Sedum reflexum)
• wild stonecrop (Sedum ternatum)

•   stonecrop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Crassulaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Category:Crassulaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• “stonecrop”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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