I've been out around where I live and I was surprised to see some Hylotelephium telephium in the wild on a very tight patch on a rough small rocky hill area which basically drips salt. It's a small patch of land that someone is maintaining in a wild state and
the vegetation is very varied and going strong, quite impressive considering the amount of salt is there.
Most of the telephiums are very small fresh clones in mid august, even if the specimen in the second photo is 2 feet, most of them have rare leaves as they have to reach way up through the massive amounts of other plants, just check out the vegetation density in general in the last two pics.
I was so excited to see these plants and the massive amounts of vegetation, I love this sort of wild places.
Yes, for sure Lynn, I got several that I am trying to see if they will root, kind of late in the year, but well hopefully it will be ok.
And to think in the same day I bought 3 pieces of a NOID telephium with massive flower heads, in the same color as the wild ones.
I remember the first time I found Sedum spathulifolium in the wild. I thought I was going to hyperventilate and pass out. It truly was so exciting. That is what I felt for you when I was looking at your photos. It is like finding a treasure.
On the other side of the freeway was a tall cliff with them growing all up and down the cliff.
On my side of the freeway I found this rock with a number of different plants growing on it, including the S. spathulifolium.
Seems that hylotelephium telephium ssp. telephium would be with the pink flowers, supposedly present in the country.
Official sources also claim hylotelephium telephium ssp. fabaria should be present in the country, also with pink flowers.
Hylotelephium telephium ssp. maximum is being shown in a white-yellow-greenish type of flower when looking online for it, surely not pink.
Would this be hylotelephium telephium ssp. maximum? This is what I believe right now.
