Hylotelephium telephium

Hylotelephium telephium
subspecies telephium subspecies telephium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Subkingdom: Tracheobionta Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Saxifragales Family: Crassulaceae Genus: Hylotelephium Species: H. telephium
Binomial name
Hylotelephium telephium
Synonyms
Sedum carpaticum Sedum fabaria Sedum telephium

Hylotelephium telephium (Orpine, Livelong, Witch's Moneybags) is a succulent perennial plant of the family Crassulaceae native to Eurasia. The flowers are held in dense heads and can be reddish or yellowish-white. A number of cultivars, often with purplish leaves, are grown in gardens as well as hybrids between this species and the related Hylotelephium spectabile (Iceplant), especially the popular Sedum 'Herbstfreude' ('Autumn Joy'). Occasionally garden plants may escape and naturalise as has happened in parts of North America.

There are several subspecies including:

• H. telephium ssp. fabaria - West & Central Europe
• H. telephium ssp. maximum - Europe
• H. telephium ssp. ruprechtii - North-east Europe
• H. telephium ssp. telephium - Central & East Europe

The plant has been used medicinally and also for love-divination

This species (and some of it's close relatives) are sometimes still placed in the genus Sedum

• Hylotelephium 'Autumn Joy' (Herbstfreude)
  Hylotelephium 'Autumn Joy' (Herbstfreude)
• Hylotelephium spectabile 'Carmen' Upright Sedum
  Hylotelephium spectabile 'Carmen' Upright Sedum

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