ORPINE FAMILY 



be due to the fact that the Nantucket plant grows more or 

 less submerged, while the typical form elsewhere grows in 

 wet gravel. "In the herbarium of the Nantucket Maria 

 Mitchell Association and of the New York Botanical 

 Gardens are Nantucket specimens, which were collected 

 by Mrs. Mabel P. Robinson on the shores of Hummock 

 Pond, August 15, 1894 and July 1896." 



CRASSULACE^E 



Sedum acre, L. 



Yellow 

 June-August 



Stone Crop, 

 Mossy Stone Crop, 

 Pricket, 

 Mouse-tail 

 Wall-pepper, 



Country-pepper, 

 Jack-of-the-Buttery, 



Golden Chain, 

 Creeping Jack, 

 Bird's Bread, 

 Mountain Moss, 

 Pride-madam, 

 Biting Orpine, 

 Love-entangled, 



Treasure-glove, 

 Tangle-tail 



Rock-plant, 



Welcome-home-hus- 

 band-though-ever- 

 so-drunk, 



ORPINE FAMILY 



Golden Moss, 

 Biting Stonecrop, 

 Creeping Charlie, 

 Wall-moss, 

 Pepper Crop, 

 Ginger, 

 Poor-man' s-pepper 



Little House Leek. 



Sedum: from Latin meaning to sit, because of the lowly 



habit of these plants. 

 Acre: Latin for bitter. 



THE PREFERRED HABITAT: dry fields, roadsides in town. 



THE STEMS : tufted or spreading, densely matted, one inch 

 to three inches high; the sterile branches prostrate; the 

 flowering erect or nearly so, warty. 



THE LEAVES: alternate and arranged in serried ranks up 

 the stem; yellow-green; fat; ovate; one half inch long; 

 smooth on both surfaces; entire. 



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