Sedum annuum
A tiny annual or short-lived stonecrop of sunny rock outcrops from Scandinavia and Iceland to the mountains of southern Europe and the Caucasus. It completes its life in one cool season and persists by seed, so growers should treat it like a cool-climate alpine annual rather than a long-lived succulent.
Where it grows wild
Thin, fast-draining soil on sunny rock ledges, outcrops, scree and gravelly banks, mostly on acidic rock. Profile built from the measured range and the habitat typical of small European Sedum.
Recorded from sea level to about 2,800 m; lowland in Scandinavia, subalpine to alpine in the Alps, Pyrenees and Balkans (median of dated records about 1,290 m).
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