General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Cactus/Succulent
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Yellow
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Other: It may be several years before it blooms
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
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
  • Synonym: Jovibarba heuffelii var. glabra
Also sold as:
  • 'Yellow Form'

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Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2018-10-20
Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2019-03-10
Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2019-06-11
Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2019-04-25
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2011-04-05
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2017-03-11
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2013-06-19
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2014-06-20
Location: Canby, OR
Date: 2017-08-25
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Mar 16, 2012
Location: my garden, Zone7A NC
Date: 2011-12-04
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Nov 6, 2010
After going through a difficult draught time. This one seems to h
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Mar 6, 2011
The rainy season has been hard on this heuffelii.
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Apr 5, 2011
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2015-03-14

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Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Oct 8, 2011
Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2018-08-02
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: March 20, 2016
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2014-09-30
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2013-04-17
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Apr 11, 2013
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Jul 7, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Dec 31, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2015-03-28
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: May 14, 2011
Recovering from the rainy season. I put more grit around it.
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Jun 18, 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Jun 25, 2012
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Aug 8, 2011
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