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Sempervivum tectorum L.  
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Family: Crassulaceae
Common House-Leek
[Sedum tectorum (L.) Scop., moreSempervivum boutignyanum Billot & Gren.]
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Richard A. Lis in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Leaves: rosettes usually open, 4-10 cm diam., producing offsets attached to parental plants by stout stolons; blade 1-1.5 cm wide, apex stoutly mucronate, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes sparingly hairy (some cultivars are hairy). Inflorescences erect, flat-topped to thyrsiform cymes, 10-40(-100+)-flowered, bracteate, (10-)20-30(-50) cm, usually 5-15 cm diam.; bracts 1 per flower, clasping at base, ovate-lanceolate, base narrow. Flowers: petals strongly reflexed at anthesis, 9-12 mm, margins entire, abaxially pubescent; stamens red to purple. 2n = (36, 40), 72. Flowering usually mid summer-fall. Rocky microsites such as rocky outcrops, stone walls, rock piles, adjacent to rocks, along cliff bases; 0-1000 m; introduced; Conn., Maine, Mass., N.J., N.Y., Utah, Va.; Europe. Sempervivum tectorum has naturalized populations in the flora area but is rarely, if ever, considered an aggressive competitor with or threat to native species. Populations occur in areas that provide a measure of physical protection because they are intolerant of treading effects. Sempervivum tectorum is highly variable. H. ´t Hart et al. (2003) recognized two varieties [var. arvernense (Lecoq & Lamotte) Zonneveld and var. tectorum] and presented an extensive synonomy for var. tectorum. Hundreds of cultivars have been propagated, sold, and traded for nearly 200 years. The variety of forms that could be found naturalized is large; any given naturalized population may differ in certain characteristics from the description above.

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Plants with axillary stolons; rosette-lvs obovate or oblong-lanceolate, with a pungent mucro, narrowed to the base, ciliate, otherwise glabrous; flowering stems 3-6 dm; cauline lvs narrowly obovate to oblong, glandular-hairy; infl very pubescent, freely branched into several spreading cymes; fls mostly 12-16-merous; pet pink-purple, 1 cm, spreading, entire; 2n=36, 72. Native of Europe, sometimes escaped from cult. in our range, esp. in N. Engl. July-Sept.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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