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Growth habit.

Flowers and foliage.

'Tricolor' Two-row Stonecrop
Sedum spurium 'Tricolor'

Crassulaceae

Evergreen subshrub with fairly upright stems bearing opposite pairs of variegated pale green obovate leaves. Flowers are pink and bloom in flat cymes.

Plant Type: perennial

Plant Form or Habit: low and trailing

Plant Use: In the front of beds and borders, as a ground cover or edging.

Propagation:
division
stem cuttings
Light Requirement: full sun

Flower Color:
pink
Bloom Period:
early summer
mid-summer
late summer
early fall
Height: Minimum: 4 inches      Maximum: 6 inches

Width: Minimum: 12 inches     Maximum: 6 inches

Foliage Texture: medium

USDA Hardiness Zone: 4

Water Requirements: average

Additional Comments: One of the nicest, most floriferous, colorful, long-blooming, vigorous sedums in our test plots in 2002, when it bloomed from mid-July through the end of September. In 2003, bloomed from mid-June to the last week of July, then withered. No disease was evident.


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