32 Different Types of Hens and Chicks Varieties

Feast your eyes on the most stunning and Different Types of Hens and Chicks varieties you can grow in your home and garden!

If you are looking for some easy-to-maintain plants that also stay compact and look stunning, then here are some Different Types of Hens and Chicks Varieties you must grow!

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Echeveria Hens and Chicks Varieties

1. Shaviana

Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Shaviana’

Echeveria Shaviana is also called Mexican Hens or Pink Frills. This delicate unique-looking variety does best in part to full sunlight.

2. Green Prince

Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Green Prince’

The Echeveria Green Prince is also called Mexican Hens and Chicks. It is a brilliant green type with very thick, flat, juicy, and fleshy leaves.

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3. Elegans

Botanical Name: Echeveria elegans

The plants’ leaves grow in tight rose-shaped leaves in the bluish-gray shade. This variety could be a great choice for outdoor garden space or even in a bright indoor area.

4. Black Prince

Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Black prince’

Echeveria Black Prince is also called the Black Hens & Chicks. It can grow to about 4-6 inches with triangular-shaped leaves in purplish-brown shades.

5. Black Knight

Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Black knight’

The Black Knight is succulent with nearly black, dark-purple-colored leaves making it one of the darkest varieties of Echeveria. Its new leaves have a lime-green shade.

6. Secunda

Botanical Name:Echeveria secunda

With rosettes that can grow up to 5-6 inches, Secunda is very hardy and one of the most common succulents. The plant also bears yellow and red flowers during the summer.

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Sempervivum Hens and Chicks Varieties

7. Sugar Shimmer

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Sugar Shimmer’

With ‘hairy’ tips and leaves, Sugar Shimmer can change its color from a blue-green color to a sugary pink forming dense rosettes.

8. Cosmic Candy

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Cosmic Candy’

This is one of the rare cobweb types of Sempervivum. The plant stays all red throughout the year with a cobweb-like texture in white color at the center of each rosette.

9. Appletini

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Appletini’

Appletini is a pretty hardy succulent that is also called Hens and Chickens. With a green apple in the middle, the tips are found to be in deep wine color.

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10. Chick Charms Mint Marvel

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Chick Charms Mint Marvel’

The plant forms tight tiny rosettes in rich green shades with red-colored tips. It also bears purple flowers in the shape of stars.

11. Fashion Diva

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Fashion Diva’

It is also commonly called Chick Charms Strawberry Kiwi. This tiny succulent forms bright red rosettes that can grow up to 2-4 inches in diameter.

12. Chocolate Kiss

Botanical Name: Sempervivum tectorum ‘Chocolate Kiss’

The chocolate kiss has a shade similar to a chocolate cake. The plant makes big rosettes in dark burgundy or brown shades that can grow up to 10-12 inches in diameter.

13. Gold Nuggets

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Gold Nugget’

Gold Nugget is the world’s first gold-colored foliage that is hardy in USDA zones 3-9. The attractive gold-color leaves look stunning with deep pink edges.

14. Watermelon Ripple

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Watermelon Ripple’

The Watermelon Ripple transforms the Sempervivum color cycle upside down. With dark red-burgundy shades near the center of the rosettes, and the tips are light green in color.

15. Cherry Berry

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Cherry Berry’

With green at the base, Cherry Berry makes rosettes that are bright cherry red in color during summer and spring that change into a green hue with red streaks in fall and winter.

16. Cinnamon Starburst

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Cinnamon Starburst’

With an almost leopard appearance, the Cinnamon Starburst looks beautiful with dark green-colored centers and spots of purple-red shade on the tips.

17. Emily Coweb

Botanical Name: Sempervivum arachnoideum ‘Emily’

It is one of the best and most unique-looking succulents. The most distinct characteristic of the plant is the cobweb-looking centers in white color.

18. Teneriffe Houseleek

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ciliosum

This hens and chicks variety forms a rosette of grey-green fleshy, pointed, hairy leaves. It grows up to 4-8 inches tall with 14-20 inches spread.

19. Greenii

Botanical Name: Sempervivum calcareum ‘Greenii’

This mat-forming succulent showcases tight rosettes with grey-green to blue-grey leaves and red or maroon tips.

20. Killer

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Killer’

‘Killer’ is a small succulent with lovely olive-green rosettes that shows splashes of deep red to mahogany across the seasons.

21. Jade Rose

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Jade Rose’

‘Jade Rose’ offers stunning, jewel-toned rosettes of light green and purple leaves. If you want the best cooler, make sure it gets plenty of bright and indirect sunlight.

22. Corsair

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Corsair’

This small, mound-forming succulent makes clusters of medium-sized, thorny rosettes. The leaves emerge in a green shade, turning a deep pink-red hue with maturity.

23. Purple Haze

Botanical Name: Sempervivum heuffelii ‘Purple Haze’

This perennial succulent forms a distinct 4-6 inches rosette of round, flat gray-green leaves with a purple hue and pointed tips.

24. Violet Queen

Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Violet Queen’

This rosette-forming succulent freely offsets to make a dense mound up to 4-6 inches tall. It keeps a compact form and gets a silver-green hue with hints of pink on leaf margins.

25. Compton Carousel

Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Compton Carousel’

Also known as Echeveria ‘Lenore Dean’, this variety shows off tall clumps of the tight rosette, leaves are blue-gray with cream-hued edges.

26. Andrenor

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Andrenor’

This hardy succulent displays a rosette of narrow bright green foliage backed and tipped with intense red.

27. Cebenese

Botanical Name: Sempervivum arachnoideum ‘Cebenese’

This beautiful variety features a dainty rosette of pale green foliage with hairy edges, entirely covering the rosette with white cobwebs.

28. Cmiral’s Yellow

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Cmiral’s Yellow’

‘Cmiral’s Yellow’ forms a rosette of pale green to bright yellow leaves depending on the growing conditions.

29. Faramir

Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Faramir’

This charming succulent offers honey pink foliage bunched around a soft green center. Purple-red star-shaped blooms grow in early summer.

30. Oddity

Botanical Name: Sempervivum tectorum ‘Oddity’

This unusual succulent forms a mat of small rosettes with blue-green leaves adorned with purple tips. Keep it in bright light for best hue.

31. Barbulatum

Botanical Name: Sempervivum x barbulatum

This variety has a mat-forming growth habit and grows small rosettes with obovate, green leaves tipped with woolly hair.

32. Emily Cobweb

Botanical Name: Sempervivum archnoideum ‘Emily’

‘Emily’ is a lovely succulent that forms a rosette of red and green foliage seen through densely webbed cilia. It grows best in full light.