Western Isles Wildflowers

Western Isles wildflowers is a collection of information about our Hebridean wildflowers including identification hints, traditional herbal uses and general plant lore.

 

English Stonecrop

Sedum anglicum

Gaelic name: Biadh an t-Sionaidh

English stonecrop grows on rocks and sandy soil. It flowers from June to August.

See a close-up photograph of an English Stonecrop flower.

English Stonecrop is a native plant of the Western Isles.

We also get Sedum acre (wall pepper or biting stonecrop) growing on sandy or rocky seashores in the Western Isles. Wall pepper has yellow flowers and hot-tasting leaves.

Photography © Suzanne Harris
Lemreway - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
30th June, 2007