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Definition of Stonecrop family
1. Noun. Succulent shrubs and herbs.
Generic synonyms: Plant Family
Group relationships: Order Rosales, Rosales
Member holonyms: Crassula, Genus Crassula, Genus Sedum, Aeonium, Genus Aeonium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stonecrop Family
Literary usage of Stonecrop family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"VIRGINIA stonecrop family. Erect perennial scarcely succulent herbs, with alternate
sessile serrate thin leaves, and greenish perfect flowers in forked ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"VIRGINIA stonecrop family. Erect perennial scarcely succulent herbs, with alternate
sessile serrate thin leaves, and greenish perfect flowers in forked ..."
3. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"stonecrop family. A rather small family of succulent herbs, some in rockeries.
SEDUM. Stonecrop. Perennial herbs with simple fleshy leaves alternate or ..."