| Scientific Name: | Sempervivum (hybrid cvs.) |
| Common Name: | hens and chicks, houseleek |
| Family Name: | Crassulaceae |
| Origin: | Africa - northern, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Succulent or Cacti |
| Mature Size: | 0.1 - 0.2m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Alpine, Container planting, Green roof technology, Ground cover, Hanging basket, Perennial border, Rock garden, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Spiraled, Basal, Succulent, Glaucous, Pubescent, Oblong, Obovate, Ciliate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Yellow, Purple, Pink, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Follicle, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves basal, lanceolate-obovate, 1-6cm long x 0.5-2cm wide, succulent, in a dense rosette 3-15cm wide with smaller rosettes clinging to the sides (the 'chicks'), flowers with 11-16 petals on a thick leafy peduncle that rises 5-25cm above the rosette. | |