| Family | CRASSULACEAE |
| Genus species | Rhodiola rosea L. |
| Bibliography | Sp. Pl. 1: 1035 (1753) |
| Native Range | Subarctic and Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | grassland and rocks |
| Description | leaves to 25mm, grey, ovate or oblong, serrate, with smooth base and dorsal midrib, flowers in corymb, tetramerous, petals very narrow, ca. 3mm long |
| Size | 20-30cm |
| Color | yellow-pink |
| Bloom | spring, summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | succulent perennial |
| Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in winter, uncovered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in spring and in late summer; cuttings in summer |
| Synonyms | Rhodia officinarum Crantz Rhodiola arctica Boriss. Rhodiola borealis Boriss. Rhodiola elongata (Ledeb.) Fisch. & C.A.Mey. Rhodiola hideoi Nakai Rhodiola imbricata Edgew. Rhodiola iremelica Boriss. Rhodiola krivochizhinii Sipliv. Rhodiola lapponica Gand. Rhodiola maxima Nakai Rhodiola minor Mill. Rhodiola odora Salisb. Rhodiola odorata Lam. Rhodiola roanensis (Britton) Britton Rhodiola rosea var. alpina Revuschkin Rhodiola rosea ssp. arctica (Boriss.) Á.Löve Rhodiola rosea ssp. borealis (Boriss.) A.P.Khokhr. & Kuvaev Rhodiola rosea f. cuneiformis Glaab Rhodiola rosea ssp. elongata (Ledeb.) H.Jacobsen Rhodiola rosea ssp. krivochizhinii (Sipliv.) S.B.Gontsch. Rhodiola rosea var. microphylla (Fröd.) S.H.Fu Rhodiola rosea var. oblonga (Regel & Tiling) H.Hara Rhodiola rosea f. purpurascens Y.Meng & J.J.Tian Rhodiola rosea ssp. roanensis (Britton) H.Jacobsen Rhodiola rosea ssp. sachalinensis (Boriss.) S.B.Gontsch. Rhodiola rosea var. scopolii (A.Kern. ex Simon.) Soó Rhodiola rosea var. subalpina Revuschkin Rhodiola rosea f. subcordata Glaab Rhodiola rosea ssp. tachiroei (Franch. & Sav.) H.Jacobsen Rhodiola rosea var. vulgaris (Regel & Tiling) H.Hara Rhodiola sachalinensis Boriss Rhodiola scopolii A.Kern. ex Simonk. Rhodiola sibirica Sweet Rhodiola tachiroei (Franch. & Sav.) Nakai Rhodiola telephioides (Maxim.) S.H.Fu Sedum altaicum G.Don Sedum arcticum (Boriss.) Ronning Sedum caerulans H.Lév. & Vaniot Sedum capitatum Royle Sedum dioicum Stokes Sedum elongatum Ledeb. Sedum elongatum var. majus Turcz. Sedum elongatum var. minus Turcz. Sedum ledebourii Steud. Sedum rhodiola DC. Sedum rhodiola var. crispum Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. dentatum Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. elongatum (Ledeb.) Maxxim. Sedum rhodiola var. humile Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. involucratum Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. lanceolatum Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. latifolium Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. oblongum Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. pumilum Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. tachiroei Franch. & Sav. Sedum rhodiola var. tenuifolium Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. viride Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodiola var. vulgare Regel & Tiling Sedum rhodioloides Raf. Sedum roanense Britton Sedum rosea (L.) Scop. Sedum rosea ssp. arcticum (Boriss.) Kozhevn. Sedum rosea var. elongatum (Ledeb.) Praeger Sedum rosea var. microphyllum Fröd. Sedum rosea var. oblongum (Regel & Tiling) H.Hara Sedum rosea var. roanense (Britton) A.Berger Sedum rosea var. tachiroei (Franch. & Sav.) Praeger Sedum rosea var. vulgare (Regel & Tiling) Maxim. ex Praeger Sedum sachalinense (Boriss.) Vorosch. Sedum suboppositum var. telephioides Maxim. Tetradium odoratum Dulac Tolmachevia krivochizhinii (Sipliv.) Á.Löve & D.Löve |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, FOR Fřroyar, GRB Great Britain, ICE Iceland, IRE Ireland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, BUL Bulgaria, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 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, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan, PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NBR New Brunswick, NFL Newfoundland, NSC Nova Scotia, QUE Québec) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (MAI Maine, NWY New York, PEN Pennsylvania, VER Vermont) 78 Southeastern U.S.A. (NCA North Carolina) |