Low to short, mat forming, often rather straggling plant. Leaves alternate, bright green, often tinged red. Flowers white 6 to 9 mm in much branched flat topped clusters on erect stems; follicles pink, erect.

There are some similar white or pink flowered species.  Sedum dasyphyllum and S anglicum have been recorded in VC55.

Glabrous; leaves cylindrical/oblong; petals fused into short calyx-tube at base.

Rocky and stony places.

June to August.

Perennial - occasionally establishes in the wild.

Occasional throughout Britain.

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 38 of the 617 tetrads.