#stonecrops

[rattyexplores]

Mother-of-Millions

Kalanchoe delagoensis

20/03/23 - NSW

[muttball]

Stonecrops in the sun

[geopsych]

Detail from the front garden.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 17 August 2024

Growing on this stone wall in Stromness, Orkney was Sedum spurium (Caucasian stonecrop, crimson stonecrop, large fringed stonecrop). This is a vigorous, mat-forming, semi-evergreen perennial with fleshy leaves on a spreading, rooting stems. The flowers are produced in late summer being pink or white in colour.

Jill Raggett

[vandaliatraveler]

Second day of fall along Muddy Creek at the historic Virginia Iron Furnace near Albright, West Virginia.

[indigrassy]

Show-y and fiery

[flowerishness]

Sedum spectabile (butterfly stonecrop var: 'Brilliant')

The butterfly stonecrop is a reliable late-summer/early-fall bloomer. At this time of year they face less competition from other flowers and, I assure you, all the local bees are paying a lot of attention to this beautiful, pink variety, 'Brilliant'.

[spinus-pinus]

Sierra Stonecrop Sedum obtusatum

7/24/2022 Sierra National Forest, California

[silversiren1101]

The fat lil bumblebees from my pollinator garden today ✨️🐝

[pnwnativeplants]

"The cuteness of spreading stonecrop is primarily due to its teeny, round, pudgy, succulent leaves. The leaves are stemless (sessile) and arranged on opposite sides of the stalk. 

They stay green all year—unless they are stressed, when they turn red or maroon. 

They look good enough to eat—like a vegetative gumdrop—and Pojar and Mackinnon tell us that, indeed, the leaves can be eaten!"

[faguscarolinensis]

Sedum x 'Little Miss Sunshine' / 'Little Miss Sunshine' Stonecrop at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[duvalpete]

Cold Spring. April 2024.

[nncastle]

Went to the Stonecrop plant sale yesterday and picked up some cool plants. The woods were magical. Love this place.

[unkn0wnvariable]

Sedum Acre Flowers

Sunlight bringing out the bright yellow flowers of sedum acre, at RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 12 September 2023

This garden dry stone wall hosts a number of Sedum species including the grey foliaged Sedum spathulifolium 'Cape Blanco' (spoon-leaved stonecrop). The fleshy rosettes are silver-grey in winter becoming blue-grey in summer, overlaid with a white bloom which intensifies with drought.

Jill Raggett

[vandaliatraveler]

Despite its undignified name, Muddy Creek is a lovely mountain stream that normally runs fast and clear on its steep descent to Cheat River. But after a week of heavy rain in NC-WV, the stream looked a bit murky yesterday. Not even the sediment washing away from the mountains dims its beauty in my eyes. And the enchanting, moss-encrusted forest along its bank holds its own late summer treasures.

From top: great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), which pairs beautifully with cardinal flower to provide late summer color in a native wildflower garden; white wood aster (Eurybia divaricata), which is the most common of the shade-loving white asters in this area; crooked-stemmed aster (Symphyotrichum prenanthoides), also known as zigzag aster, whose clasping, spatula-shaped leaves distinguish it from big-leaf aster, another woods-loving aster with lavender flowers; blue-stemmed goldenrod (Solidago caesia), whose spreading, yellow-flowered stems provide stunning late-season color in a native wildflower garden; an intensely-green collage of moss, woodland stonecrop (Sedum ternatum), Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) and heartleaf foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia), which I am trying hard to reproduce in my own native wildflower shade garden; the shaggy-maned stem of Coker's Amanita (Amanita cokeri), one of the most impressive mushrooms of Appalachia's summer forests; beech-drops (Epifagus virginiana), a parasitic plant that grows and subsists on beach tree roots; the bright red berries of false Solomon's seal (Maianthemum racemosum); yellow jewelweed (Impatiens pallida), whose explosive seed pods give the plant its other common name, pale touch-me-not; and narrow-leaved tick-trefoil (Desmodium paniculatum), also known as panicled tick-trefoil, a late summer pea whose sticky seed pods commonly hitch rides on shoes and boots.