This wonderful tiny sedum is a New World Plants introduction. According to their information it is not a hardy sedum, and it will not survive freezing temperatures. I will try keeping some on my covered deck during our zone 8 winter to see whether it will tolerate a dry/cold winter.

Edited 8/7/2014
This sedum started blooming for me in July. It seems that it has a very long bloom period. It is easy to miss the fact that it is in bloom or in bud, due to the fact the the flowers are extremely tiny. It is well worth the effort to use a magnifying glass to take a close look at the beauty of the flower. Very free flowering once it gets started in the bloom cycle.
Thank you, chickhill, for this very special plant.

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This plant, sold erroneously as Sedum 'Little Missy', is correctly known as Crassula pellucida ssp. marginalis 'Variegata'.

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Sedum Little Missy, which is actually Crassula pellucida subsp. marginalis 'Petite Bicolor', is a crassula. This crassula/formally sedum is NOT hardy.

Easiest way to differentiate Crassula Little Missy and Sedum Suzie Q is by leaf shape:
-> Little Missy usually grows two leaves per node, whereas Suzie Q generally grows in rosette shapes (sometimes will also make 2 leaves per node, but this usually doesn't happen a lot)
-> Little Missy's leaves are much thinner, and "triangle" like, more acute, whereas Suzie Q's leaves are chubbier, slightly more elongated, thicker, and rounder.
-> Suzie Q is much more unstable than Little Missy, so generally, when looking at large colonies of Suzie Q, you may find many "variations", unless the specimen is kept very well trimmed and cut. Some examples are half moon, albino, reverted, reverted/variegated etc. Little Missy is generally more stable, and rarely has fully albino leaves, but occasionally puts out reverted stems.

Do note that because of the unstable-ness of these 2 varieties, it is best to remove reverted stems or rosettes from specimens as they grow to make sure the reverted ones do not take over. Albino rosettes/stems are technically "parasites" because they do not make their own food, they survive only from taking nutrients from the parts of the plant that have chlorophyll, so, it is also best to remove those, unless you like that look of no chlorophyll.

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Not winter hardy in 7a.

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I bought this in 2018 from Mountain Crest Gardens who listed it on their website as being hardy to zone 5. I'm seeing different information here and on other websites, as well as one other site selling this plant who also lists it as hardy to zone 5. I've already planted it in my zone 5 rock garden so I'll just have to wait and see. Will update this comment next spring.

Spring 2019 update - it didn't make it through the winter.

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Today, 11-23-14 found a green stem growing. Pulled and potted to see whether it turns out to be the NOID one I bought that looks like Missy, only green.

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