General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Cactus/Succulent
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Leaves: Evergreen
Flowers: Showy
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Other: It may be several years before it blooms
Suitable Locations: Xeriscapic
Uses: Provides winter interest
Groundcover
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Provide light
Stratify seeds: Stratifying seeds may improve germination, but is not required
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Offsets
Other: Reproduce in a sessile fashion (new offsets between older leaves) without a stolon and must be divided through the root and crown, leaving a rosette with each division.
Containers: Suitable in 1 gallon
Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs excellent drainage in pots
Miscellaneous: Monocarpic

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Common names
  • Job's Beard
  • Beard of Jove
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Sempervivum heuffelii
  • Synonym: Jovibarba heuffelii

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Date: 2017-07-27
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Date: 2020-06-30
Emergence of flower stalk
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2019-04-29
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2019-03-11
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2018-04-02
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Dec 31, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Mar 6, 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: May 7, 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: May 11, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: May 11, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Jul 5, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Sep 11, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Sep 5, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Jul 26, 2010
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Nov 6, 2010
Going through a difficult draught time, this one seems to handle
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Oct 2, 2011
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Date: 2017-06-16
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Date: Aug 3, 2011
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Date: 2019-07-04
Location: Washington 8b
Date: 2017-05-07

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Do I sense another series? (Universities or is it cities?) by CDsSister Sep 11, 2012 4:12 PM 3

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