Sedum spurium - Two-row Stonecrop (Crassulaceae) ------Sedum spurium is known as a creeping groundcover Twigs that forms a low dense procumbent mat. Two-row -herbaceous stems are green, red/purple, or light Stonecrop is very urban tolerant, especially to heat, brown, and self-root at the nodes as they lie upon the full sun, drought, and poor, thin, rocky soils. ground FEATURES USAGE Form Function -short herbaceous semi-evergreen groundcover -usually located in poor thin soils, soilless media, at maturing at about 4" tall in foliage and 6" tall when the edge of beds, or even in rock crevices in flower -often found as a complementary plant that weaves in -quickly spreading to form mats of dense stems and and around other plants or rambles over rockery, and miniature foliage mixes well with other perennials in raised planters, -procumbent mat growth habit, becoming a prostrate strawberry jars, edgings, rock gardens, and wall mat in winter overhangs; less often found as a solid groundcover in -slow to medium growth rate (in clump diameter) the landscape Culture Texture -full sun to partial shade -medium to fine texture -performs best in full sun in moist, well-drained soils, -thin to thick density, depending upon soil but it is extremely urban tolerant, and is usually availability and competition with other plants reserved for highly stressful sites around rockery that Assets exposes it to thin soils, poor soils, very dry soils, soils -very urban tolerant (especially to full sun, poor soils, of various pH, low fertility, extreme heat, drought, thin soils, and prolonged drought; basically, it will full sun, and high light reflectance; however, it is not grow where nothing else will, as long as it is sunny tolerant of wet or poorly drained soils and dry) -propagated primarily by rooted stem cuttings, but -foliage color variants (usually bronzed or red, but also by crown division or segmentation of the self- also variegated) rooted prostrate stems -small but showy pink inflorescences in early -Orpine Family, with no diseases or pests of summer (especially when viewed among rock significance outcrops) -commonly available in containers -rapidly spreading under optimum conditions Foliage Liabilities -semi-evergreen -prone to invasion and domination by weeds (since it succulent leaves are is often located in tucked-away, stressful spots that green, bronzed, red, do not have mulch, and that harbor only the toughest crimson, or plants that are naturally dispersed by seed or variegated rhizomes) (depending upon -slowly invasive, and hard to extract from the cultivar), usually crevices that it can root into abscising all but the Habitat most terminal -Zones 3 to 8 leaves by late winter, with the remaining leaves -Native to the Caucasus staying bronzed into the following spring -opposite (or clustered at the stem apices), obovate SELECTIONS (fan-shaped), crenate, and sessile to short-petioled Alternates Flowers -other groundcovers, specimen dwarf perennials, rock -red, pink, or pinkish- garden plants, or unusual plants for "collectors", white, flowering especially those plants that perform well under profusely for 2-4 stressful conditions (Antennaria dioica, Cerastium weeks in June and tomentosum, Genista pilosa, Lewisia cotyledon, July, especially on Opuntia humifusa, Phlox subulata, Sedum species, mature plants that are Sempervivum hybrids, Thymus species, etc.) under a moderate Variants amount of stress (or -several exist, primarily noted for foliage color and/or put another way, those flower color that have it "good" in -Sedum spurium 'Dragon's Blood' - the most popular terms of soil, moisture, cultivar, very vigorous, with deep mauve or dark pink and nutrition tend to have predominantly lush inflorescences, noted for its greenish-bronzed to vegetative growth rather than reproductive growth) reddish-bronzed foliage throughout the summer, that -erect inflorescences occur above the foliage, with turns to a deep and attractive burgundy in winter the vertical peduncles radiating flat-topped pedicels -Sedum spurium 'Red Carpet' - reddish foliage at the apex, bejeweled with many 5-petaled, star-like throughout the growing season, becoming a deep flowers crimson in autumn and winter, rarely having deep Fruits carmine flowers; not as vigorous as most other green- -wiry pedicels are the predominate feature on the or bronze-foliaged cultivars fruiting heads, and will persist into the following -Sedum spurium 'Tricolor' (also known as season if unsheared and will detract somewhat from 'Variegatum') - foliage is a combination of faded jade the superior foliage effect green, white, and pink; this cultivar is weak, spreads -best to deadhead after flowering, to promote slowly, is not dependably winter hardy, and rarely vegetative growth flowers