Red Carpet Stonecrop

Sedum spurium 'Red Carpet'

Red Carpet Stonecrop is a dense mat-forming evergreen succulent with whorls of green flattened wedge-shaped fleshy foliage with thin red margins that flush deep rose in summer before turning deep burgundy in fall and winter.  Clusters of tiny red star-shaped flowers bloom in late summer.  Grows best in full sun and dry to medium well-drained soils.  Drought and heat tolerant once established.

MAINTENANCE NEEDS: Low Maintenance.  Watch for slugs and snails.  Scale might be a problem. 

LANDSCAPE USES:  Accents or Group Plantings, Borders, Woodland Garden,

Rock Gardens, Xeriscape Gardens, and Containers.

COMPANION PLANTS:  Hen and Chicks, Fescue, Shasta Daisy 

IMAGE: Photo by Quinn Dombrowski, Someone spilled green on my Red Carpet, (2) Photo by David J. Stang, Sedum spurium Red Carpet 2zz, CC BY-SA 4.0, (3) Photo by David J. Stang, Sedum spurium Red Carpet 1zz, CC BY-SA 4.0

*As plants have ranges in appearance they may not appear as the images shown.