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Common name: showy sedum, showy stonecrop, balloon plant, everlasting
Botanical name: Sedum spectabile Family: Crassulaceae (sedum family)
Showy sedum is a clump forming herbaceous perennial up to 2 ft (0.6 m) tall
and just as wide. The fleshy, succulent leaves are bluish-green in color, egg
shaped, toothed on the edges, about 3 ft (0.9 m) long, and opposite or whorled
on the stems. The pink-green stems are thick and succulent, held upright and
unbranched. In summer, showy sedum blooms with star-shaped pink flowers about
a half inch (1.3 cm) across in dense flat-topped clusters (cymes) about 6 in
(15.2 cm) in diameter, held on the stem tips above the leaves. The flowers
give way to showy clusters of brownish-maroon seeds. Showy sedum dies to the
ground in winter, then sprouts back from its tuberous roots in spring.
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