This section is from the book "Who's Who Among The Wild Flowers", by W. I. Beecroft. Also available from Amazon: A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants.
Midsummer-men: Pudding-bag Plant: Live-long: Witches' Money: Garden-stonecrop.
Sedum purpureum. Orpine Family. Aug. - Sept.
Found in fields, waysides. Quebec to Maryland, Michigan and westward. Introduced from Europe.
Small, dull garnet red or reddish purple, in thick, terminal clusters.
Thick, smooth, toothed, seated on stem 10 - 20 inches high.

Live-for-ever.
 
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