Sedum spathulifolium Hook.

Pacific Stonecrop

Evergreen hairless, tufted herb often spreading from the base. Leaves forming rosettes, each about 2 cm wide, obovate or spoon-shaped, blunt, grey-green tinged with red or purple, stalkless. Flowers in dense, flat-topped clusters, yellow, mostly 1-1.5 cm wide; summer.

N America.

Source: Stajsic, V.; Spencer, R.; Forster, P.; Thompson, A. (2002). Crassulaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.

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Sedum spathulifolium 'Cape Blanco'

Habit compact; leaves with an exceptionally white bloom. Flowers yellow.

Sedum spathulifolium 'Purpureum'

Leaves large, whitish-bloomed at first but with a purplish tinge later.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     [Saxifraganae]
order      Saxifragales
family       Crassulaceae
genus        Sedum L.