Hylotelephium spectabile

Hylotelephium spectabile
Inflorescence
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Hylotelephium
Species: H. spectabile
Binomial name
Hylotelephium spectabile
(Boreau) H.Ohba
Synonyms[1]
  • Sedum spectabile Boreau
  • Sedum telephium var. kirinense Kom.

Hylotelephium spectabile (formerly called Sedum spectabile) is a species of flowering plant in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, native to China and Korea. Its common names include showy stonecrop, ice plant,[2] and butterfly stonecrop.[3] Growing to 45 cm (18 in) tall and broad, it is an herbaceous perennial with alternate, simple, toothed leaves on erect, unbranched succulent stems. The star-shaped pink flowers are borne in flat cymes 15 cm (6 in) across, in fall (autumn).[4]

The specific epithet spectabile means "showy".[5]

This plant is valued in cultivation as drought-tolerant groundcover. Numerous cultivars have been produced. The species[6] and the cultivar 'Brilliant'[7] have both gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

References

  1. ↑ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species".
  2. ↑ "USDA GRIN Taxonomy". Retrieved 19 June 2014.
  3. ↑ "BSBI List 2007" (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
  4. ↑ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
  5. ↑ Harrison, Lorraine (2012). RHS Latin for gardeners. United Kingdom: Mitchell Beazley. p. 224. ISBN 9781845337315.
  6. ↑ "RHS Plant Selector - Sedum spectabile". Retrieved 3 June 2013.
  7. ↑ "RHS Plant Selector - Sedum spectabile 'Brilliant'". Retrieved 3 June 2013.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hylotelephium spectabile.
Wikiversity has bloom time data for Sedum spectabile on the Bloom Clock