This plant has been growing in inhospitable areas at my mom's in northern NJ. This on'es in the center of the driveway. I hope you can tell from the photo that it is very low growing, multi-stemmed and with lovely star-shaped yellow flowers. It is blooming now. I forget its flowering habit though - all summer maybe? I think the fleshy, pointy leaves grow in groups of three along the stems. I'd like to dig one up and take it to Minneapolis. What is it, and will it survive there? Thank you in advance!! Zippy
Sedum sarmentosum and yes, it will survive in Minneapolis. It dies back in the winter, but it should sprout again in the spring.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for the speedy and complete information I'd just about given up finding. I recall them growing since childhood and just LOVE these dainty little plants, but didn't want to destroy them by chancing an alien environment!! I'm happy to know I can take some of my old backyard with me. I'm almost sure I understand what you mean about sprouting again, but I'd like to ask the question anyway: Does the same plant come up in the spring or do it's dropped seeds sprout in spring? Thanks again.
The above-ground stems die at the start of winter, but the roots stay alive and send up new shoots in the spring
I have to THANK YOU ALL again for your generosity of time spent to help me out. The information is beyond helpful!! I needed the ID to determine the more important growing conditions and haven't been able to do even that independently, by schlepping a photo to any nursery I happened to pass in the tri-state area or combing other websites. I decided to google one last time (I really am attached to this funky little plant) and am THRILLED I found this site. (I can't wait to post pics of a small native tree no nursery has been able to ID in the 25 years I've been living here!) Thanks Again!!
