Sedum pulchellum
Widow's cross is a winter annual or short-lived Sedum of the south-central United States, best known from limestone cedar glades, where it covers wet rock in late spring with branched sprays of pink to white star flowers. It germinates in autumn, grows through a cold, wet winter and usually dies after flowering, so treat it like a hardy annual and let it self-seed.
Where it grows wild
Thin soil over limestone and other rock in glades, outcrops, bluffs and roadsides, often where seepage keeps the soil wet in winter and spring.
Recorded at 91–533 m, median about 200 m.
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