General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: |
Cactus/Succulent
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Life cycle: |
Perennial
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Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Minimum cold hardiness: |
Zone 5a -28.9 °C (-20 °F) to -26.1 °C (-15 °F)
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Leaves: |
Evergreen
Semi-evergreen
Deciduous
Other: Depending on winter conditions.
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Flowers: |
Showy
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Flower Color: |
White
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Bloom Size: |
Under 1"
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Flower Time: |
Summer
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Suitable Locations: |
Xeriscapic
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Uses: |
Suitable for miniature gardens
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Propagation: Other methods: |
Offsets
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Containers: |
Needs excellent drainage in pots
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Miscellaneous: |
Monocarpic
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- Dunce's Cap
- Chinese Dunce's Cap
- Iwarenge
- Accepted: Orostachys iwarenge
- Synonym: Sedum iwarenge
- Synonym: Orostachys iwarenge var. albovariegata
- Synonym: Orostachys iwarenge var. aureomarginata
- Synonym: Orostachys iwarenge var. luteomedia
- Synonym: Orostachys iwarenge var. albomarginata
- Synonym: Orostachys malacophylla var. iwarenge
- Synonym: Orostachys iwarenge var. magna
- Synonym: Orostachys chongsunensis
Posted by
Rhapsody616 (Long Beach Ca USA - Zone 10a) on Apr 21, 2013 9:50 PM concerning plant:
Beautiful rosettes of blue-grey foliage are borne on the ends of short stems, with smaller rosettes branching from the larger stems, creating a beautiful silver low groundcover. A hardy spreading perennial succulent. Large gray tapering spikes of orange and white flowers are borne in late summer-fall.
Perfect for containers and for rock, fairy, and vertical gardens. It may be small, but what a showstopper!
Posted by
goldfinch4 (Ripon, Wisconsin) on Sep 2, 2015 5:01 AM concerning plant:
One of my very favorite plants! The unusual gray color really stands out in the gardens. I find it self-seeds readily, but it blooms very late in our zone 4 summer so it doesn't always have time to set seed before it freezes. It's a fragile plant with tiny stems, but despite that, it does well. In winter it dies back to the point that it looks dead, but it quickly comes to life again in the spring.
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