| Family | CRASSULACEAE |
| Genus species | Orostachys spinosa (L.) Sweet |
| Bibliography | Hort. Brit., ed. 2. 225 (1830) |
| Native Range | e. European Russia to Russian Far East and Korea |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Altitude | 600-2900m |
| Description | leaves in rosettes crowded, oblong, apical spine 2-4mm, stem leaves linear to oblanceolate, 1-3cm, acuminate, flowers in raceme or spike, sepals 2-3mm, red variegate; biennial |
| Size | 5-20cm |
| Color | greenish yellow |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | succulent perennial |
| Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in winter, uncovered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in spring and in late summer; detachment of rosette |
| Synonyms | Cotyledon erubescens (Maxim.) Franch. & Sav. Cotyledon spinosa L. Crassula spinosa (L.) L. Orostachys chlorantha Fisch. Orostachys erubescens (Maxim.) Ohwi Orostachys spinosa var. erubescens (Maxim.) V.V.Byalt Sedum erubescens (Maxim.) Ohwi Sedum spinosum (L.) Thunb. Sempervivum cuspidatum Haw.. Umbilicus erubescens Maxim. Umbilicus spinosus (L.) DC. |
| Territory | 1 Europe 14 Eastern Europe (RUE East European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KHA Khabarovsk, MAG Magadan, PRM Primorye) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHN China North-Central, CHT Tibet, CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 38 Eastern Asia (KOR Korea) |