Forms: 1 stáncrop, 4–5 stancroppe, 5 stoon-, stoncroppe, 5–6 stoncrop, 5–8 stone crop, 6 stone croppe, 7 stone cropp, 8–9 stone-crop, 7– stonecrop. [OE. stáncrop: see STONE sb. and CROP sb. (? sense 3).] The common name of Sedum acre (N.O. Crassulaceæ), an herb with bright yellow flowers and small cylindrical fleshy sessile leaves, growing in masses on rocks, old walls, etc.; also applied (with or without defining word) to other species of Sedum, esp. those of similar growth, and of allied genera, as the N. American Penthorum.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 354. Cassuc þefan þorn, stan crop.
a. 1387. Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.), 17. Crassula minor, vermicularis, an. stancroppe.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg. (1894), 185. Leie þerevpon a lynnen clooþ wet in þe iuys of stooncroppe.
c. 1450. M. E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich), 173. Item drynke stancroppe wyþ wermot & hit wol slee hem.
1548. Turner, Names Herbes, 72. Sedum…. The seconde kynde is called in English thryft or stoncroppe. The thyrd kinde is called in Englishe Mouse tayle or litle stoncroppe.
1678. Phillips (ed. 4), Stonecrop,… an Herb of a very hot temperature, sharp and biting.
1777. Jacob, Catal. Plants, 103. Sedum annuum, Mountain Stone-crop. Ibid., 104. Sedum reflexum, Yellow Stone-crop, or Prick-madam…. Sedum acre, Stone-crop, or Wall-pepper.
1782. J. Scott, Poet. Wks., 100. Along my wall the yellow stonecrop grows.
1862. Miss Braddon, Lady Audley, i. An ancient wall … overgrown with trailing ivy, yellow stonecrop, and dark moss.
1866. Treas. Bot., 861/1. Penthorum sedoides commonly goes by the name of Virginian Stonecrop in the United States.
b. Stonecrop tree, Shrub or Tree stonecrop: names for Suæda (Salsola) fruticosa.
c. 1710. Petiver, Catal. Ray’s Eng. Herbal, Tab. viii. Tree Stonecrop.
1721. Mortimer, Husb., II. 189. The greater Stone-crop Tree is a beautiful green.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), II. 278. Salsola … fruticosa … Shrub Stone-Crop, or Glasswort.
