Ewers stonecrop
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Ewers stonecrop ( Hylotelephium ewersii ) |
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The Ewers stonecrop ( Hylotelephium ewersii , syn .: Sedum ewersii Ledebour ) is a species of the genus Hylotelephium . The specific epithet honors the geographer and historian Gustav von Ewers , a friend of the first descriptor Ledebour .
features
The Ewers stonecrop is a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 10 to 20 centimeters. The leaves are sessile and circular to broadly ovate, the base is often heart-shaped. The roots are slender and cord-like. The rhizome is branched and woody. The stems branch out at the base. They are ascending, purple-brown in color, glabrous, 5 to 25 inches long and woody at the base. The leaves are opposite, sessile, broadly ovate to almost circular and measure 1.5 to 2 × 1.5 to 2 centimeters. They usually have brown spots. Their edge is serrated all over or inconspicuously. The tip of the leaf is blunt. The inflorescence is umbel-like, tufted and up to 3 centimeters wide. The sepals are free, lanceolate and about 2 millimeters long. The petals are purple-red, ovate-lanceolate, about 5 millimeters long and pointed. The stamens are shorter than the petals. The stamens are reddish, the anthers purple. The nectar scales are oblong-egg-shaped, their tips are notched. The follicles are upright and measure 3 to 4 millimeters, their tips are beaked short. The seeds are lanceolate and brown in color.
Flowering time is from July to August.
Occurrence
The Ewers stonecrop is found in West Siberia, Central Asia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, the Himalayas and China (Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet) on rocks, stony slopes, crevices and alpine moraines at high altitudes from 1800 to 2500 meters ahead.
use
The Ewers sedum plant is rarely used as an ornamental plant in rock gardens.
swell
- Eckehart J. Jäger, Friedrich Ebel, Peter Hanelt, Gerd K. Müller (eds.): Rothmaler excursion flora from Germany. Volume 5: Herbaceous ornamental and useful plants . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Berlin Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8274-0918-8 .
- Flora of China, accessed July 19, 2008
