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Sedum
Thanks for the photo, that’s a cool sedum!
There are hundreds of different sedum. This one looks like ‘confused’ sedum. Used as a ground cover outdoors, they do great in dish gardens indoors. They want lots of light and not much water. Treat them as you would a cactus. Water only when the top inch of soil is dry and put it in your sunniest window.
All sedum flower, feel free to chop off the stems when they are done. Flowering is in the fall.
Rare is the houseplant that likes dry household air but this one does.
See also
The Sedum Society
Sedums forgotten plants indoors and out
. . . SEE-dum, as in the evergreen ground cover cited so often as a water-sipping lawn alternative. . . As in the versatile, low-maintenance species that work so well on slopes, in rock gardens, around pavers and as filler plants in containers.
While eye-arresting echeverias, otherworldly aeoniums and architectural Agave attenuata take center stage in succulent landscapes and magazine spreads, the poor sedum trudges on, underappreciated and barely recognized — the character actor you know you’ve seen before, but you’re just not sure where.
. . .In her new book “Designing With Succulents,” Debra Lee Baldwin suggests using Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’ en masse to great effect. “Use it to create rivers of colors amid flower beds as a border and in juxtaposition with plants with deep red flowers and foliage,” she says. “It is also lovely cascading from a container or tucked into a stone wall.”
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