(White Stonecrop)

Native to rocky areas of Europe, North Africa, and West Asia, this creeping evergreen perennial is a verdant groundcover for sandy or gravelly soils in sun, forming lush green mats of small succulent leaves. The cylindrical to spherical leaves are pale to dark green and sometimes red-flushed. Each has the potential to root where it falls, making this plant potentially invasive in delicate alpine gardens. Flat clusters of small starry white to pinkish flowers appear from late spring into summer.

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(Stonecrop)

This creeping, small-leaved, and utterly charming evergreen sedum is found in rocky places in western Europe from sea level to the highest elevations. The plants grow tucked into narrow gaps in sun-drenched outcroppings. The shoots root at the leaf nodes to form lush mats of tiny cylindrical to spherical leaves. Short thick scaly stalks tinged in greenish pink bear leafy clusters of starry white or pale pink flowers in late spring and early summer. They are followed by attractive red-brown seed capsules....

(Cliff Stonecrop)

Similar to but hardier than its Japanese compatriot Sedum sieboldii, this mounding herbaceous perennial bears fleshy rounded blue-green leaves on low trailing purple-leaved stems. The leaf tips are often weakly toothed and edged with purple-red. The dense foliage provides the perfect backdrop for the heads of starry rose-purple flowers in late summer and early autumn. Late-season butterflies and insects flock to the flowers.

This perennial prefers full sun and well-drained, not overly...

(Orange Stonecrop)

A floriferous, paler-leaved variety of Sedum kamtschaticum, this hardy herbaceous perennial from Japan makes a fine dense carpeting groundcover where soils are poor and winters dry and cold. Its broadly spoon-shaped, fleshy, toothed leaves are densely borne on sprawling unbranched reddish stems. The leaves usually persist into late fall or early winter. Starry yellow flowers appear in leafy clusters in summer, followed by russet-red fruits that provide fall and winter interest. Plants spread...

(Orange Stonecrop)

Even more floriferous than Sedum kamtschaticum, this hardy herbaceous perennial from China makes a fine dense carpeting groundcover where soils are poor and winters dry and cold. Its spoon-shaped, fleshy, dark green leaves are densely borne on sprawling reddish stems. The leaves are toothed at their tips. Starry yellow flowers appear in leafy clusters in summer, followed by russet-red fruits that provide fall and winter interest. Plants spread slowly by short underground rhizomes. Among...

(Orange Stonecrop)

Even more floriferous than Sedum kamtschaticum, its variety reflexum is a hardy herbaceous perennial from China that makes a fine dense carpeting groundcover where soils are poor and winters dry and cold. The cultivar 'Weihenstephaner Gold' has especially showy golden-yellow flower that age to orange-yellow. The starry yellow flowers appear in leafy clusters in summer, followed by russet-red fruits that provide fall and winter interest. The spoon-shaped, fleshy, dark green leaves...

(Orange Stonecrop)

This hardy herbaceous perennial from northeastern Asia makes a fine dense carpeting groundcover where soils are poor and winters dry and cold. Its spoon-shaped, fleshy, dark green leaves are densely borne on low erect stems. The leaves sometimes persist into winter, often turning burgundy tones in fall. Small starry orange-yellow flowers appear in leafy clusters in summer, followed by russet-red fruits that provide fall and winter interest. Plants spread slowly by short underground rhizomes. Among...

(Orange Stonecrop, Variegated Orange Stonecrop)

This durable, showy-leaved, mat-forming perennial makes an ideal groundcover for cold, dry, rocky garden niches. Its parent species inhabits stony slopes in Northeast Asia.

The fleshy, toothed, spoon-shaped leaves of 'Variegatum' have irregular, creamy-white margins. The leaves sometimes persist into winter, often turning burgundy tones in fall. Small starry orange-yellow flowers appear in leafy clusters in summer, followed by russet-red fruits that provide fall and winter interest. Plants spread...

(Stonecrop)

Native to moist forests in eastern China and Japan, this mat-forming fleshy-leaved perennial is one of the most shade-tolerant of the sedums. Its prostrate stems bear small shiny green spoon-shaped leaves that bunch in rosettes at the upturned tips. The stems root at the nodes to eventually form broad carpets. Clusters of small starry greenish-yellow flowers appear on short stems in late spring and early summer. Several variegated and gold-leaved forms of this evergreen perennial are available.

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(Stonecrop)

A gold-leaved form of a mat-forming, fleshy-leaved, evergreen perennial native to moist forests in eastern China and Japan, 'Ogon' is one of the most shade-tolerant of the sedums. Its prostrate stems bear small golden pink-tinged spoon-shaped leaves that bunch in rosettes at the upturned tips. The stems root at the nodes to eventually form broad carpets. Clusters of small starry greenish-yellow flowers appear on short stems in late spring and early summer.

Unlike most sedums, this somewhat...