| Description | A mat forming ground cover succulent plant. In colder climates can be grown outdoors during the summer and indoors in a bright window during the off season. |
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| Pronunciation | (ech-e-VER-i-a) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Succulents |
| Hardiness Zone | 7-9 |
| Sunlight | full, some shade |
| Moisture | average, tolerates dry but doesn't mind an occasional watering |
| Soil & Site | average, well drained |
| Temperature | tolerates cool weather, hardy to 20-25 degrees F |
| Flowers | one-sided racemes, lantern-shaped, tipped with yellow |
| Leaves | tight rosette, gray to glaucous blue |
| Stems | stolons |
| Dimensions | rosettes reach 8-12 inches, spreading over a foot |
| Propagation | easy by division of the rossets |
| Native Site | Mexico |
| Misc Facts | The genus Echeveria was named to honor Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría Godoy. |
| Author's Notes | I first became aware of this plant as a member of the Wisconsin Cactus and Succulent Club. One of the members grew these in mass in a large succulent garden (zone #5). Each fall they would dig up the plants, divide them and give away their excess. Which was a lot since the plants rapidly send out stolons with plantlets at the tip. The cold weather seems to darken the color. |
| Notes & Reference | #05-Lexicon of Succulent Plants (Hermann Jacobsen) |
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