Sedum spurium 'Green Mantle'
Garden Plant Information

Sedum spurium

 

Name

Sedum spurium  'Green Mantle' (also called yellow stonecrop)

Genus  

Sedum

Species

spurium

Cultivar/variety

 'Green Mantle'

General description

Mat-forming, semi-evergreen ground cover plant with bright green foliage and clusters of yellow flowers in summer. Useful for poor and/or dry soil, rockeries and edging.

 

Very attractive to bees, hoverflies and butterflies.

Season of interest

Evergreen in mild areas (but not here in north Lincolnshire), flowers in summer.

Key horticultural features

  1. Habit - lax, mat-forming. H: up to 10cm S: up to 50cm.

  2. Stems - lax, trailing, green to mid-brown.

  3. Leaves - fleshy, obovate, glossy, serrated, bright green. Leaves form in tight whorls in spring before opening out more.

  4. Flowers - clusters of bright yellow, star-shaped flowers borne in summer.

Cultural details

Aspect

Full sun

Soil

Well-drained, neutral to alkaline.

Hardiness

Hardy

Maintenance

In cold areas it may lose its leaves so cut back bare stems - it will sprout again in spring.

 

May be troubled by slugs and snails, and by vine weevils if grown in compost.

Propagation

 

By seed or division in spring. It also sets a few seeds, but hasn't become troublesome in my garden.