Plantsnap – Identify Plants, Trees, Mushrooms With An App

Showy stonecrop (Hylotelephium spectabile)

Description

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, and butterfly stonecrop. 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). The specific epithet spectabile means "showy". This plant is valued in cultivation as drought-tolerant groundcover.Numerous cultivars have been produced. The species and the cultivar 'Brilliant' have both gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Saxifragales

            • Family: Crassulaceae

              • Genus: Hylotelephium

More species in Hylotelephium genus