| Description | Once planted this rapidly growing thug will be in the garden forever. The only place to use Stringy Stonecrop is where nothing else will grow and its spread can be constrained. |
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| Plant Type | All Plants, Perennials Hardy |
| Hardiness Zone | 3-9 |
| Sunlight | full sun |
| Moisture | Prefers to be kept dry but I have seen it growing on the rocks next to a water fall. |
| Soil & Site | average to poor |
| Flowers | yellow flowers |
| Leaves | yellow green |
| Stems | branching stems, stringy, prostrate, forms a mat and yellow green to reddeish |
| Dimensions | 4" high, spreads wherever the stems touch and root, basically forever |
| Maintenance | controlling the spread |
| Propagation | At my nursery we use to propagate this by the sheet cake method. Spread out a few hand full of trimmings on a flat of media, wait a few weeks, than take a knife and cut it into little pieces. Like cutting a sheet cake. Easy to root from the thin stringy stems, or by division. |
| Author's Notes | This plant is a thug and will quickly become a pest if not planted properly. The best use of this plant I ever saw was at a nursery that planted it between a black top driveway and a stone wall. A former student of mine working for a landscape company was commenting on how difficult it was to weed a massive bed of this because you always pulled out big gobs of the plant along with the weed. A large perennial border that I renovated had as one of its original inhabitants this plant. I though I sprayed and got rid of every last stem, 6 years later it's back. |
| Notes & Reference | #68-Groundcovers for the Midwest (Voight, Hamilton,Giles), #209-The Plant Lovers Guide to Sedums (Brent Horvath) |
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