| Scientific Name: | Sempervivum tectorum |
| Common Name: | roof houseleek, hens and chicks |
| Family Name: | Crassulaceae |
| Origin: | |
| 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: | Spreading |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Ground cover, Rock garden |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry |
| Leaves: | Simple, Spiraled, Basal, Succulent, Pubescent, Obovate, Ciliate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Purple, Pink, Red, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Follicle, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Succulent rosette evergreen 5-10cm in diameter with off-shoots or "chicks" eventually forming; leaves succulent, obovate, most 4-6cm long x 1-2cm wide, margins with fine hairs; flower stalks with spirally arranged leaves rise up 5-25cm above the foliage ending in several flowers each 2-3cm wide with 11-16 pinkish to red-purple petals. | |