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 Color: Yellow
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
Parentage: Pallasii x unknown

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

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Location: my garden, Utah
Date: 2019-05-30
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2020-06-14
Location: Seattle WA 
Date: 2016-09-08
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Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Jun 20, 2012
Location: SunZone 6a
Date: 2016-04-28
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Jun 19, 2013
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2016-06-24
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: May 5, 2012
Location: Colleyville, Texas zone 8a
Date: Apr 2010
Location: Canby, OR
Date: 2017-02-25
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Oct 11, 2011

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Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Feb 6, 2012
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: 2014-03-08
Location: my garden zone 7b NC
Date: 2013-05-15
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Photo by jkbingh
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Sep 1, 2012 
Camera lens fogged up.   :  (
Location: Washington
Date: 2016-05-29
Location: my garden zone 7b NC
Date: 2012-06-14
Location: Pacific Northwest, zone 8
Date: Feb 6, 2012
First winter in my beds
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Jul 4, 2011
Location: Pacific Northwest zone 8
Date: Aug 8, 2011
Location: South Jordan, Utah, United States
Date: 2019-07-04
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Comments:
  • Posted by valleylynn (Oregon City, OR - Zone 8b) on Jun 21, 2013 11:13 AM concerning plant:
    This heuffelii fits its name 'Sundancer.' Through most of the year it appears to have red flames dancing above green rosettes.
    I have no problems with rot during our very long and wet winter & spring rainy season. A tough heuffelii that grows well. A medium sized heuffelii.

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