Flowers for the garden
Compact sedum
S. compactum Rose
Family Crassulaceae. Native range: Mexico.
Perennial herbaceous plants, forming dense mats, roots bulbous-thickened. Leaves oblong-ovate, 0.3 cm long, flat on top, glabrous, grayish-green, tightly arranged in a shingled (imbricate) pattern. Flowers 2-3 per flower stalk, white, strongly fragrant. Blooms in summer, in June–July.