Sedum reflexum 'Glaucum'

Sedum reflexum 'Glaucum'

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Sedum reflexum 'Glaucum'
  • Sedum reflexum 'Glaucum'
  • Sedum reflexum 'Glaucum'
  • Sedum reflexum 'Glaucum'
  • Sedum reflexum 'Glaucum'
Sedum reflexum 'Glaucum'

Sedum reflexum 'Glaucum'

€5,90
Organic
Sustainable
Locally grown

🪴Standard: 9x9 cm pot

🚂  Ships across EU

🌱 Grown without pesticides or UV lamps
Flower Color: Yellow

Preferred Soil Type: Sandy

Sunlight: Full sun, Partial shade

Hardiness Zone: Zone 7: -17°C

Growth Habit: Compact, Trailing

Origine: Europe

Sedum reflexum ‘Glaucum’ is a low-growing, evergreen succulent prized for its needle-like, blue-gray foliage, which resembles a miniature spruce.

This variety is particularly striking with its fine, gray-green-blue, bristly leaves.

It forms dense, mat-forming rosettes that spread gradually, making it ideal for rock gardens, green roofs, container planting, and groundcover.

In summer, it produces small, star-shaped yellow flowers atop short stems, attracting bees and other pollinators.

Its succulent leaves store water, giving it excellent drought tolerance, while the compact growth habit and striking foliage color add year-round architectural interest.

Learn more about caring for your Sedum:
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Gardening Tips

🪴 Perfect for rock gardens, alpine gardens, container planting, hanging baskets, or mixed succulent displays.

✂️ Minimal maintenance is required, with occasional pruning to maintain shape and remove spent flower stems.
The Botany

Floral Morphology: Sedum reflexum ‘Glaucum’

Sedum reflexum ‘Glaucum’ is a low-growing, mat-forming succulent in the Crassulaceae family, with slender, needle-like, glaucous blue-green leaves arranged along trailing stems.

In summer, the plant produces small, star-shaped, yellow flowers clustered in loose inflorescences (cymes).

Flowers are actinomorphic and hermaphroditic, with five sepals and five petals, and a superior ovary.

The fleshy, water-storing leaves give the plant its resilience under drought and help maintain turgor during dry periods.

Reproductive Biology

Pollination is primarily entomophilous, attracting bees and other small insects. Sedum propagates easily through leaf cuttings or stem offsets, allowing rapid vegetative reproduction.

Seeds are produced in small capsules but vegetative propagation is far more common in cultivation.

The plant exhibits Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM), opening stomata at night to conserve water while allowing photosynthesis during the day.

Ecology & Cultivation

Sedum thrive in well-drained, sandy or rocky soils under full sun, although it tolerates light shade.

It is drought-tolerant, frost-sensitive, and well-suited for rock gardens, containers, or as ground cover.

The plant is low-maintenance, requires minimal watering, and benefits from occasional pruning to remove damaged or overgrown stems.

Its vibrant leaf colors and compact growth habit make it popular for ornamental gardening and succulent collections.

Other names:

Orange Stonecrop

Orpin Bleu
The Myth

Reflexum vs rupestre - this is an ongoing debate that turns around the inflorescences and which way they face when the buds are produced.

However!

I've found in my Sedum journeys - both practical and literary that:

the fine-leaved Sedum rupestre of Dillenius later was classified as Sedum reflexum, then reclassified by Linnaeus as Sedum rupestre var. reflexum named under Linnaeus so... they are.. the same?
Petrosedum rupestre and Petrosedum forsterianum seem to be clearly derive from the same rupestre taxon but are systematically separated by taxonomists

It's a bit of a wacky world.




The plant can be seen on 'green roofs' or 'green wall' systems in Korea where plants are incorporated into the structure of the building, providing habitats for wildlife and innovative insulation solution for humans.

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