Scientific name: Sedum acre L.
Common name: Biting Stonecrop
Description
Habit: A hairless, small perennial, to 10 cm high.
Stems: Leafy stems semi-erect or trailing, rooting; flowering stems and shorter sterile stems erect.
Leaves: Alternate, 3-5 mm, fleshy, often tinged with red, scarcely spurred at the base, oval, and bluntly pointed.
Flowers: Yellow, actinomorphic, 15 mm across, in small terminal cymes with 2-3 main branches; sepals 5, united at the base; petals 5, free; stamens 10; carpels 5.
Fruits: A collection of small follicles, spreading horizontally.
Habitat: Limestone pavement, walls and calcareous sands.
Distribution: Very frequent in the Burren, locally frequent on dunes elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No