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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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