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At the very least, the flowers look remarkably like the flowers of the Sedum 'Lemon Coral' I posted about in May: also yellow, also five-petaled, with five long anthers (they are anthers, right? Never let it be said that I claim to have all the anthers.) situated between petals. I mean, the similarities are definitely there, though the rest of the plants don't look particularly alike.
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I know you can't really see the leaves and habit all that well in these pictures, but if anybody has any more specific theories about IDs, I'd welcome hearing them. I don't know if I need twenty square feet of them, but they're interesting plants, and it'd be nice to be more certain about what they are before I start making decisions about how many I want and where I want them.
That is Russian Stonecrop, one of the varieties of Sedum kamtschaticum. That particular species is highly variable and has many varieties, I don't know which one exactly... this is the one that's also commonly known as Live-Forever. It is easy to grow, and is a common "pass-along" plant, that you usually got a clump of from your moms house throughout the midwest, Plantings of it were sometimes used as a sort of weed barrier around trees, foundations, or anywhere you wanted something besides bare dirt. Looks a lot like Pachysandria, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteA little research on the web tells me that it's sedum kamtschaticum ellacombianum. Nice to know exactly what I've got growing under my yuccas...
ReplyDeleteIt's an easy plant. You can pretty much forget it's there and let it do it's thing.
I agree with Claude's ID. I have lots of this, which I grew from seed. It does make a lovely ground cover, and stands up well to sun, clay soil, dryness, moisture, heat, and cold Illinois winters.
ReplyDeleteI love the stuff.
Yes! Pachysandra is what I was thinking -- until it bloomed.
ReplyDeleteI guess it will stay, then. I do like it okay, and davesgarden.com commenters say it's pretty manageable.