Witch's moneybags (Hylotelephium telephium)

Common Names: Live forever

Description: The Romans prescribed this plant to treat wounds and in contemporary medicine it is used internally to treat ulcers.

Habit: Succulent perennial, the clustered, leafy, erect stems to over 2 ft tall, often red-tinged.

Leaves: Alternate, ovate-oblong, up to 8 cm long, flattened with coarse, rounded, shallow teeth.

Stems: Unbranched; thick; 0.5 (1 cm) diameter.

Flowers: Dense, head-like, flat-topped cymes; 5 sepals, 10 stamens and 5 petals, spreading, pinkish-red, whitish, greenish or yellowish in color; blooms July through September.

Fruit and seeds: Follicles.

Habitat: Native to Eurasia. Found on rocks and stony ledges.

Reproduction: By seed.

Similar species: Showy stonecrop (Hylotelephium spectabile).

Monitoring and rapid response: Hand-pulling.

Credits: The information provided in this factsheet was gathered from the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, New England Wild Flower Society Go Botony, and the USDA PLANTS Database.

Individual species images that appear with a number in a black box are courtesy of the Bugwood.org network (http://www.invasive.org).Individual photo author credits may not be included due to the small display size of the images and subsequent difficulty of reading the provided text. All other images appear courtesy of Google (http://images.google.com).

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