Stats

Lifespan

Perennial

Size

Small

Diet

Photosynthetic

Biome

Temperate mountains

Range

East Asia

Movement

Sessile

Breeding

Seeds

Defense

Toxins

Status

Rare

About

Yellow Stonecrop, a succulent native to Japan and Korea, bears compact mounds of bright green leaves and clusters of yellow, star-shaped flowers that appear in the spring. Despite being often mistaken for the closely related Phedimus kamtschaticus, Yellow Stonecrop's star-shaped flowers are a key identifying feature.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   seed

   A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2. 2.
   sprout

   A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3. 3.
   sapling

   A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4. 4.
   mature

   Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Saxifragales

Family

Crassulaceae

Genus

Phedimus

Species

Phedimus ellacombeanus