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Saxifragaceae Family (sometimes placed in its own family, Penthoraceae) - Ditch Stonecrop. Virginia Stonecrop
Penthorum comes from the Greek words pente, meaning "five" and horos. "a mark"; from the flowers arrangement in five parts. Sedoides comes from the word meaning "like Sedoides" - the flowers of the two taxa being similar.
Prefers the low, wet soils of marshes, lakeshores and ponds, wet prairies and alluvium. Small, yellow-green flowers (petals normally absent) with finely toothed lanceolate leaves. Grows from 1 to 3 feet tall.
The Meskwaki made a cough syrup from the seeds of P. sedoides.
