A small fleshy-leaved plant which typically has star-shaped yellow or white flowers and grows among rocks or on walls.
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Genus Sedum, family Crassulaceae: many species, including yellow (or biting) stonecrop (S. acre), whose tiny leaves have a bitter, peppery taste
Example sentencesExamples
His firm will plant the Academy roof with wild strawberry, sea thrift, the herb self-heal and stonecrop, a sedum that attracts the endangered Mission Blue Butterfly.
Stonecrop is a beautiful plant that has green leaves all summer then in August flowers to salmon pink to burgundy then dark brown.
He was referring to S. reflexum, the yellow stonecrop, which in some places shares the name ‘creeping Jenny’ with S. acre, more commonly known as wall-pepper or golden stonecrop.
Both maidens repose on a crumbled wall; yet saxifrage, stonecrop and spring flowers sprout from the rubble.
Definition of stonecrop in US English:
stonecrop
nounˈstōnkräpˈstoʊnkrɑp
A small fleshy-leaved plant which typically has star-shaped yellow or white flowers and grows among rocks or on walls.
景天
Genus Sedum, family Crassulaceae: many species, including the mossy stonecrop (S. acre), whose tiny, thick leaves have a bitter, peppery taste
Example sentencesExamples
Stonecrop is a beautiful plant that has green leaves all summer then in August flowers to salmon pink to burgundy then dark brown.
His firm will plant the Academy roof with wild strawberry, sea thrift, the herb self-heal and stonecrop, a sedum that attracts the endangered Mission Blue Butterfly.
He was referring to S. reflexum, the yellow stonecrop, which in some places shares the name ‘creeping Jenny’ with S. acre, more commonly known as wall-pepper or golden stonecrop.
Both maidens repose on a crumbled wall; yet saxifrage, stonecrop and spring flowers sprout from the rubble.