Sedum kamtschaticum) is widely grown as an ornamental ground cover and has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Leaves decussate or alternate, with narrow base, and several hydathodes on lower face along margins.

The fruits are follicles, usually spreading and seeds costate-papillate (incompletely connate), but multipapillate in Phedimus selskianus.

[3] Phedimus is a genus in the family Crassulaceae, subfamily Sempervivoideae, tribe Umbiliceae, together with three other genera.

It was segregated from the very large cosmopolitan and polyphyletic genus, Sedum, where it was variously considered a section or subgenus.