Small succulent, sessile scaly, greenish petals, forming a creeping, mossy cushions with fibrous roots. Mossy Stonecrop English name, aptly describes its shape - mechovitý.

Sedum acre growing on rocks, limestone, slate, granite. We find it even in the lowlands along the roads, meadows and pastures. Well himself up in the bog and shallow wells in the rock. It is naturalized in Europe, America, North Africa, West Asia, it occurs in Iceland and Greenland.

Requires full sun, in the shadow of higher plants gradually die, disappear, but its ability to easily reproduce the moves to new habitats. Breeds through most easily rooted from mother plants odlomených vrcholkových stems. The production of seedlings is also high with easy vysemenění and scattering seeds.

The closest relatives of the two species. Sedum acre and Sedum annuum, both originating in Northern Europe. Sedum annuum is usually one year.

Sedum acre is appropriate to the kind of place that should be in a short time have become overgrown. Grows well on dry zídkách and highly exposed places where other types of plants die. Recently, a very popular kind of Sedum acre Yellow Queen, the golden-colored tops of stems.

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