List 9 – Sedum sexangulare
Sedum sexangulare (watch-chain stonecrop)
Family: Crassulaceae
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-9
Size:
- 1-2 ft
- 25 – 0.5 ft tall
Form:
- Plants are mat-forming
- Spreading; low to the ground
Soil & Water requirements:
- Doesn’t require irrigation, but will establish easier with water
- Easily grown in dry to medium, well-drained soil
- Does well in gravelly, sandy soils with low fertility
Exposure:
- Full sun to light shade
Leaves:
- Evergreen
- Foliage is a mixture of green to copper/pink
- Rustier when more exposed to sun
- Leaves on the ultimate flower stalk turn yellow
- Herbaceous perennial
Flowers:
- Bright yellow flowers
- Tiny; star-like
- Multiples of five petals
Suitable uses:
- Top of wall
- On a slope
- Rock gardens
- Ground cover
- Front of the border
- Green roof gardens
- Look best in mass plantings
- Good in pots
Propagation:
- Easy to propagate; just spread pieces of the surface of the ground and they will grow
Other:
- Won’t take over
- Sexangulare = ‘six-angled’