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Plant Habit: Cactus/Succulent
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Leaves: Evergreen
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Other: It may be several years before it blooms
Uses: Provides winter interest
Groundcover
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Provide light
Stratify seeds: Stratifying seeds may improve germination, but is not required
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Other: Reproduce in a sessile fashion (new offsets between older leaves) without a stolon and must be divided through the root and crown, leaving a rosette with each division.
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Miscellaneous: Monocarpic

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Common names
  • Job's Beard
  • Beard of Jove
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Sempervivum heuffelii
  • Synonym: Jovibarba heuffelii

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Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2019-09-09
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2016-04-25
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Jul 5, 2010
Starting into drought conditions.
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: May 14, 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Jun 18, 2011

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Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: 2014-08-20
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: May 11, 2010
5/11/2010 PNW zone 8
Location: Washington
Date: 2016-05-26
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Mar 6, 2011
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2014-04-22
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2013-06-21
Location: Wisconsin
Date: 2012-04-14
Zone 4 Wisconsin

Photo Courtesy of Mountain Crest Gardens. Used with permission.
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Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: May 11, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Sep 19, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Nov 4, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Nov 13, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Apr 5, 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Oct 16, 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Sep 19, 2010
Location: Salem, Oregon
Photo courtesy of Perennial Obsessions.
Location: Salem, Oregon
Photo courtesy of Perennial Obsessions.
Location: Salem, Oregon
Photo courtesy of Perennial Obsessions.
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Comments:
  • Posted by valleylynn (Oregon City, OR - Zone 8b) on Oct 24, 2011 10:09 PM concerning plant:
    Mystique is one of my most productive heuffelii. Not only is it productive, but nothing seems to bother it. Not drought or our long rainy season.
    In it's darker phase the leaves appear to be polished and have a nice patina to them.
    It has a lovely form to the rosettes, even as they multiply the individual rosettes have a pleasing open appearance.

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