Hylotelephium populifolium Credit: Tatyana Shulkina

Dwarf shrublet of about 40-50 cm. Leaves long-petiolate, oblong, coarsely toothed, 2-4 cm x 1-2 cm. Flowers minute, white or pink in copious, much-branched corymbose cymes. Fruits red when ripe. V - mid spring to late autumn. F - early summer, June-July in St. Petersburg, for 3-4 weeks. Fr - August. P - by seed and cuttings. Come into flower the year after sowing. Does very well in sunny places on limestone soil, in crevices of dry walls. Very well suited to the rock garden. Z 4 (3).

Siberia (eastern Altay and western Sayan mountains). In shady humid places, on rocks and on riverbanks.