Hylotelephium erythrostictum (Miq.) H.Ohba

Stems 4-10 dm × 5-10 mm, from rootstock with cluster of white, tuberous, carrot-shaped roots. Leaves alternate or opposite, sessile or short-petiolate, becoming scarcely smaller distally; blade light yellow-green or glaucous-green, elliptic, 6-10 × 3-4 cm, base rounded or cuneate, margins coarsely serrate or dentate toward apex, apex subacute. Cymes lax, 7-15 cm diam. Pedicels 3-6 mm. Flowers often sterile, 8-10 mm diam.; sepals triangular, 2 mm; petals white with green midribs or greenish, 5-6 mm; stamens absent or 1-10, as long as petals; pistils absent or 1-5, pink, 3-5 mm; styles 1 mm; nectaries whitish, oblong, 1 mm, longer than wide. 2n = 48.

Grasslands, sides of ravines; at elevations from 400-1,800 metres. Stony and sandy soils at moistened sites on seashores and in river valleys.

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.