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Ditch stonecrop is native to North America; its range includes the majority of the states in the U.S. and the provinces in Canada. It is a small (1-2' tall) plant with green or red stems, usually unbranched. Cymes of flowers 1-3" across arise from the upper stems, each cyme with 2-4 spreading flowering stalks; flowers are restricted to only one side of the flower stalks. Individual 1/4" flowers are yellowish-green to white, have five spreading, green sepals, ten stamens with cream-colored or yellow-orange anthers, and five beaked carpels, each with a single style and a green stigma; petals are completely absent. (The carpels look rather like a teapot with no handle and a very wide spout, or like a "duck" wine decanter. Look it up.) The carpels become the seed capsules; they turn bright red when mature. Ditch stonecrop prefers wet habitats (like ditches). It is completely unrelated to biting stonecrop (Sedum acre).

Penthorum

Penthorum sedoides

ditch stonecrop [Blooms: Aug-?]