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Biting stonecrop Sedum acre, a succulent that grows well on chalk and limestone. Called ‘biting stonecrop’ and ‘wall pepper’ because of the sharp taste of its leaves, it has a variety of uses in herbal medicine. It is often encouraged to grow on walls.

Any of a group of plants belonging to the orpine family, succulent herbs with fleshy leaves and clusters of red, yellow, or white starlike flowers. Stonecrops are characteristic of dry, rocky places and some grow on walls. (Genus Sedum, family Crassulaceae.)



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In the three months of the summer it only freezes every other day and every night, and then the snow begins to weep off on the southerly slopes, and a few ground-willows put out their woolly buds, a tiny stonecrop or so makes believe to blossom, beaches of fine gravel and rounded stones run down to the open sea, and polished boulders and streaked rocks lift up above the granulated snow.
 
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