English Stonecrop - PInk Western Isles Wild Flowers
These lovely star shaped pink flowers are to be seen, usually in rock crevices quite high up. The English Stonecrop is a flower native to the Hebrides.It grows in acidic places such as, rocks, dunes and shingle, and dry grassland by the sea, and on walls or hedge banks. The plant likes dry places and lots of sunshine and grows tucked up in the rocks. The short stalks tinged greenish pink bear leafy clusters of star shaped very pale pink almost white flowers through the summer. They are followed by the pretty red-brown seed capsules

Flowers
The plant shows its lovely flowers from June through to September. This beautiful delicate looking perennial which grows up to about 5cms has flowers that are about 12mm across, with 5 petals and red follicles. ten contrasting stamens and five carpels. The fruit are red

Leaves
It has fleshy evergreen succulent leaves that are tinged red as they age, and are egg shaped, which spread to form a carpet of cover. Fleshy, cylindrical, The leaves are alternate. This plant belongs to the Crassulaceae family.