Live rooted plants Field grown in Brattleboro, Vermont Washed clean of soil, mailed in moist medium Coverage: about 2 sq ft in six weeks · about 4 sq ft over a season 12–14 rooted plants, finger length · plant 4–5 in apart
The straight species, and the one with the history. Reflexed stonecrop makes trailing stems of blue-green needle-like leaves and throws up bright yellow flower heads through summer. Less intensely coloured than its selected forms, and tougher-looking for it.
The leaves are edible — mildly sour, crunchy, a bit like a cucumber-flavoured green bean — and this was a working salad plant across Europe for centuries under the name prick-madam. It's not a flavour bomb, but it's a genuinely usable green from a plant that needs nothing from you.
Evergreen, drought-proof, and happy in the sort of thin dry ground where grass gives up.
Botanical name: Sedum rupestre(syn. Sedum reflexum)
Also known as: Prick-madam, reflexed stonecrop, crooked yellow stonecrop
Flowers: Bright yellow, summer
Foliage: Blue-green needles, evergreen
USDA Zones: 3–9
Light: Full sun
Height: 4–8 in
Spread: Trailing, moderate
Edible: Yes — mild, slightly sour, eaten raw in salads
Best for: Rock gardens, walls, edible landscaping, green roofs
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"Prick-madam" is a corruption of the French trique-madame, and the plant appears in European kitchen gardens and herbals well back into the medieval period — grown for salads at a time when fresh greens were scarce for much of the year. That it survives on walls and rooftops with no care made it a reliable crop in a way most salad plants aren't.
It's one of the very few genuinely edible plants that will grow in three inches of gravel on a roof.
Source: Missouri Botanical Garden — Sedum rupestre | Plants For A Future
Live rooted plants Field grown in Brattleboro, Vermont Washed clean of soil, mailed in moist medium Coverage: about 2 sq ft in six weeks · about 4 sq ft over a season 12–14 rooted plants, finger length · plant 4–5 in apart
The straight species, and the one with the history. Reflexed stonecrop makes trailing stems of blue-green needle-like leaves and throws up bright yellow flower heads through summer. Less intensely coloured than its selected forms, and tougher-looking for it.
The leaves are edible — mildly sour, crunchy, a bit like a cucumber-flavoured green bean — and this was a working salad plant across Europe for centuries under the name prick-madam. It's not a flavour bomb, but it's a genuinely usable green from a plant that needs nothing from you.
Evergreen, drought-proof, and happy in the sort of thin dry ground where grass gives up.
Botanical name: Sedum rupestre(syn. Sedum reflexum)
Also known as: Prick-madam, reflexed stonecrop, crooked yellow stonecrop
Flowers: Bright yellow, summer
Foliage: Blue-green needles, evergreen
USDA Zones: 3–9
Light: Full sun
Height: 4–8 in
Spread: Trailing, moderate
Edible: Yes — mild, slightly sour, eaten raw in salads
Best for: Rock gardens, walls, edible landscaping, green roofs
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"Prick-madam" is a corruption of the French trique-madame, and the plant appears in European kitchen gardens and herbals well back into the medieval period — grown for salads at a time when fresh greens were scarce for much of the year. That it survives on walls and rooftops with no care made it a reliable crop in a way most salad plants aren't.
It's one of the very few genuinely edible plants that will grow in three inches of gravel on a roof.
Source: Missouri Botanical Garden — Sedum rupestre | Plants For A Future
