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Sempervivum calcareum
About
Sempervivium calcareum, the houseleek, is a species of flowering plant in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, native to the southern Alps in Europe. An evergreen succulent perennial, it has a rosette with thick leaves that store water. The leaves are usually green with reddish-purple tips. This plant reproduces with asexual budding and monocarpic sexual reproduction.
- Family
- Crassulaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Sempervivum calcareum
- Slug
- sempervivum-calcareum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Crassulaceae
- Genus
- Sempervivum
- Species
- calcareum
- Wikidata QID
- Q606821
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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