General Plant Information (Edit)
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
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

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Location: Zone 6 - New Jersey, USA
Date: Spring 2023
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2016-09-06
Location: Oregon City, OR, zone 8
Date: 2022-06-16
Four year old rosette finally making increase.
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2019-05-05
Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: 06-28-2018
Young potted plant, received mail-order May 2018.
Location: Massachusetts garden
Date: September 30, 2018
This heuffelii variety keeps blood red color for the entire seaso
Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2022-07-15
Location: Seattle WA 
Date: 2016-07-11
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Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2020-04-01
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Sep 2, 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2016-03-16
Location: Liberty, Utah
Date: May 26, 2019
Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2018-08-02
Location: Washington 8b
Date: 2017-08-13
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Oct 14, 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Jul 22, 2011
Location: Canby, OR
Date: 2016-09-06
Uploaded by twitcher
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Sep 13, 2010
New plant this year and struggling with the summer drought.
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Oct 4, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Nov 7, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Dec 31, 2010

Date: 2015-07-13
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Mar 6, 2011
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2016-06-21
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Comments:
  • Posted by valleylynn (Oregon City, OR - Zone 8b) on Oct 24, 2011 9:39 PM concerning plant:
    I have had this heuffelii for a year now and it has not produced more rosettes.
    It did struggle with our drought season last summer and did not have a chance to recover and grow a strong root system before the rainy season arrived.
    It is now a healthy plant, so hope to see it flourish and reproduce spring of 2012.
    As of Oct 2011 it is a beautiful, symmetrical heuffelii.

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