| Description | Chinese Mountain Stone Crop (Phedimus middendorffianus) is a low-growing Sedum with yellow flowers. The foliage can turn a brilliant red in the fall. |
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| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | full sun |
| Moisture | average, dry |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | blooming early to mid June. yellow flowers |
| Leaves | narrow, tiny, linear, slightly v-shaped, red to purple in the spring and gray green during the growing season. |
| Dimensions | 4-6" tall, mine have spread slowly over 24 inches |
| Maintenance | This is a delicate plant making it difficult to weed around. You need to get on yours hands and knees and gently pull the weeds so as not to damage the plant. |
| Propagation | easy from cuttings. |
| Native Site | Inner Mongolia, E. Siberia, Manchuria, N Korea and Okhotsk Sea. |
| Misc Facts | AKA: Chinese Mountain Sedum |
| Author's Notes | I have grown this plant for over 5 decades. Always has been super hardy. Likes well drained soils. |
| Notes & Reference | #04-Herbaceous Perennial Plants (Allan Armitage), #36-Encyclopedia of Perennials (Christopher Woods), #68-Groundcovers for the Midwest (Voight, Hamilton,Giles), #209-The Plant Lovers Guide to Sedums (Brent Horvath) |
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