An evergreen plant with thick and fleshy foliage, this beautiful succulent is perfect for homes and gardens. Here are the best Types of Sedums you can grow.
Sedums are easy to grow and offer a vivid combination of colors that can add a lot of appeal to rock gardens and your succulent collection! As the plant comes in hundreds of varieties, we have selected the most gorgeous Types of Sedums that you can grow both indoors and in gardens.
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Attractive Sedum Varieties
1. Ogon
Botanical Name: Sedum makinoi ‘Ogon’
Size: 3-5 inches
USDA Zone: 6a-9b
Also known as ‘Golden Japanese Stonecrop,’ it’s a spreading groundcover having tiny, round-shaped golden foliage. During spring, it grows yellow-green, star-like flowers.
2. Giant Jelly Bean
Botanical Name: Sedum lucidum ‘Obesum’
Size: 18 inches tall
USDA Zone: 9a-11b
This beautiful cultivar has fat, round, glossy green leaves that turn exquisite cherry-red in full sun. The plant also grows star-shaped white flowers.
3. Alice Evans
Botanical Name: Sedum ‘Alice Evans’
Size: 6 inches tall
USDA Zone: 9b-11b
‘Alice Evans’ offers a rosette of thick, green, fleshy pointed leaves, which look like individual flowers. The plant also grows beautiful star-shaped blooms in white color.
4. Mocinianum
Botanical Name: Sedum mocinianum
Size: 12-24 inches
USDA Zone: 9b-11b
It is a perennial succulent with hanging stems and green hairy leaves that are arranged in a tight rosette. During winter, it grows small white flowers.
5. Donkey’s Tail
Botanical Name: Sedum morganianum
Size: 24-36 inches
USDA Zone: 10a-11b
Native to Mexico, this sedum offers erect, pendant-like stems with fleshy blue-green lance-shaped leaves. It closely resembles relative Sedum burrito with long, pointed leaves.
6. Firestorm
Botanical Name: Sedum adolphi ‘Firestorm’
Size: 8-10 inches
USDA Zone: 10a-11b
‘Firestorm’ is an attractive low-growing sedum with trailing stems and yellow-green foliage. The leaves form red edges when exposed to cool temperatures or bright light.
7. Integrifolium
Botanical Name: Sedum integrifolium
Size: 8-14 inches
USDA Zone: 5-8
You can distinguish this plant easily from the other specimens on this list by its broad, flat leaves. The plant grows tall and features purple flowers on top.
8. Humifusum
Botanical Name: Sedum humifusum
Size: 1-3 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-8
A mat-forming succulent, the plant has deep green foliage that takes a wonderful shade of red when exposed to bright sunlight. It is one of the best types of sedums to grow!
9. Morrisonense
Botanical Name: Sedum morrisonense
Size: 4-8 inches
USDA Zone: 5-8
The compact leaves of the plant are tightly packed together, giving it a bushy look. Grows beautiful flowers in a bright shade of yellow.
10. Colorado Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum spathulifolium
Size: 4-6 inches
USDA Zone: 3a-9b
It forms mats of a basal rosette from rhizomes with leaves having a waxy and powdery texture. The flowers have yellow petals and are small in shape.
11. Cape Blanco Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum spathulifolium ‘Cape Blanco’
Size: 4-5 inches
USDA Zone: 5a-9b
This perennial succulent produces a beautiful mat of thick, powdery grey-green, and purple-tinted leaves. In late summer, the plant grows yellow flowers.
12. Baby Burro’s Tail
Botanical Name: Sedum burrito
Size: 36-48 inches
USDA Zone: 10a-11b
This beautiful succulent has trailing stems with grey-green to blue-green, fleshy bean-shaped leaves. It stems resembles a young donkey’s tail, hence the name.
13. Wormleaf Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum stenopetalum
Size: 8-12 inches
USDA Zone: 5a-9b
This sedum variety has branched stems that form a short rosette and erect yellow flowers with plantlets that fall on the ground, producing new plants.
14. Diffuse Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum diffusum
Size: 7-10 inches
USDA Zone: 7a-9b
This mat-forming sedum displays fleshy, branched rootstock, and short stems with lean green to pink branches packed with alluring blue leaves. The foliage turns pink with time.
15. Versadense
Botanical Name: Sedum versadense
Size: 6-10 inches
USDA Zone: 8a-9b
This sedum is a small succulent shrub featuring decumbent or erect, hairy stems and small fleshy red-cream foliage covered with tiny hairs.
16. Stringy Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum sarmentosum
Size: 10-14 inches
USDA Zone: 3a-9b
This mat-forming sedum features creeping and ascending branched stems with yellow-green fleshy lance-shaped leaves, arranged in loops.
17. Tiny Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum caespitosum
Size: 2-4 inches
USDA Zone: 5-9
This small annual succulent showcases erect, solitary, or branched stems that spread slowly and form a dense mat. Egg-shaped fleshy leaves are green or red depending on light.
18. Mexican Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum mexicanum
Size: 8-12 inches
USDA Zone: 7a-10b
It is a semi-hardy succulent featuring bright green foliage arranged in a whorl around the branched stems with cylindrical leaves. It is one of the best types of sedums to grow!
19. Palmer’s Sedum
Botanical Name: Sedum palmeri
Size: 10-12 inches
USDA Zone: 7a-10b
This beautiful sedum forms a rosette of pale green foliage at the ends of winding stems. Rounded leaves are slightly pointed in shape and take a red-pink hue in intense sunlight.
20. Sedum acre
Botanical Name: Sedum acre
Size: 2-5 inches
USDA Zone: 4-9
Sedum acre displays an eye-catching shade of bright green, finely textured leaves highlighted by yellow blooms during summer.
21. Sedum cauticola
Botanical Name: Sedum cauticola
Size: 2-4 inches
USDA Zone: 5-9
Loved for its silver-blue foliage, this sedum belongs to Japan. The leaves have a shade of gray-green. Come fall and the plant is accentuated by purple-pink flowers.
22. Sedum craigii
Botanical Name: Sedum craigii
Size: 3-6 inches
USDA Zone: 9b-11b
This low-growing sedum showcases flat stems covered in thick and fleshy, finely haired foliage, in an attractive shade of purple-white.
23. Shore Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum litoreum
Size: 6-8 inches
USDA Zone: It’s an annual plant and has no USDA hardiness zone
Also known as Coastal Stonecrop, it is a small, smooth, erect, annual succulent ‘branched from the stem’ variety with oblong bright-green foliage.
24. Sedum confusum
Botanical Name: Sedum confusum
Size: 10-16 inches
USDA Zone: 6b-10b
The glossy and evergreen leaves of this plant make it simple, yet eye-catching. It is a great plant to grow in mild climates where the edges of its leaves get a pink hue in full sun.
25. Alexanderi
Botanical Name: Sedum alexanderi
Size: 12-16 inches
USDA Zone: 9b-11b
Alexanderi is a small shrub that produces light green or yellow leaves. It also grows white flowers with red markings and does well in full sun to moderate shade.
26. Allantoides
Botanical Name: Sedum allantoides
Size: 12-16 inches
USDA Zone: 9b-11b
This pretty sedum variety grows a small shrub with thick, pale blue-green powdery leaves arranged in a rosette. Green-white flowers appear in summers.
27. Red Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum moranense
Size: 6-10 inches
USDA Zone: 5a-9b
This beautiful succulent shrub produces bright green leaves and stems that turn pink in cool climates. If the temperature gets too cold, they take a bright maroon hue.
28. Angelina
Botanical Name: Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’
Size: 8-10 inches
USDA Zone: 5-10
This low growing succulent has eye-catchy foliage in a brilliant shade of golden-yellow and green, turning into copper-orange in winter. It is one of the best types of sedums to grow!
29. Sea Urchin Sedum
Botanical Name: Sedum lineare ‘Sea Urchin’
Size: 3-6 inches
USDA Zone: 7a-11b
‘Sea Urchin’ is a distinct, slow-growing sedum that produces evergreen foliage. The needle-shaped silver-green leaves are up to 1 inch long and have white margins.
30. Chocolate Ball Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum polytrichoides ‘Chocolate Ball’
Size: 8-12 inches
USDA Zone: 8a-10b
‘Chocolate Ball’ is a mat-forming, low-growing, evergreen, perennial succulent with dense leafy stems. The needled deep green foliage turns dark red-brown in cold climates.
31. Comic Tom
Botanical Name: Sedum commixtum
Size: 10-14 inches
USDA Zone: 8a-10b
This perennial succulent sub-shrub has many stems with lax rosettes. The green-hued leaves turn to purple-red or brown with time. It grows small star-shaped yellow flowers.
32. Spanish Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum hispanicum
Size: 6-10 inches
USDA Zone: 5a-10b
This low-growing perennial succulent has blue-green foliage. As the weather becomes warmer, the leaves turn blue-grey in color.
33. Blue Tears
Botanical Name: Sedum dasyphyllum ‘Major’
Size: 12-16 inches
USDA Zone: 7a-10b
This mound-forming, evergreen perennial has several branching stems and opposite, overlapping, round blue-green leaves. It is one of the best types of sedums to grow!
34. Alpestre
Botanical Name:Sedum alpestre
Size: 4-6 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-9
A low growing specimen, it has bright green foliage with yellow flowers. Grows in a compact form and does well in bright light.
35. Andegavense
Botanical Name: Sedum andegavense
Size: 3-5 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-8
A very compact plant, it grows in dense clusters that look like tiny red balls. Great to grow in a garden or pots, both.
36. Caeruleum
Botanical Name: Sedum caeruleum
Size: 5-10 inches
USDA Zone: 4-8
An annual, its fleshy leaves are oblong in shape and have a tint of red in the right light exposure. Also grows star-shaped, blue flowers.
37. Clavatum
Botanical Name: Sedum clavatum
Size: 4-6 inches
USDA Zone: 5-8
This green sedum variety has pale green leaves with red tips. It also features a compact inflorescence of star-shaped flowers in white color.
38. Commixtum
Botanical Name: Sedum commixtum
Size: 12-16 inches
USDA- Zone: 4a-9
Also famous as the Sedum ‘Comic Tom,’ it’s a perennial with blue-green leaves that take a tint of brown as they age. It also grows small yellow flowers.
39. Obcordatum
Botanical Name: Sedum obcordatum
Size: 2-4 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-9
One of the most gorgeous specimens on this list, the plant will amaze you with its blue-green foliage with a silver sheen. Surely one of the most beautiful types of sedums.
40. Red Wiggle
Botanical Name: Sedum ochroleucum ‘Red Wiggle’
Size: 3-5 inches
USDA Zone: 5-9
With its dense, needle-like foliage, the plant looks spectacular with its light and deep green leaves that have a bright red tip. It also grows yellow star-shaped flowers.
41. Pilosum
Botanical Name: Sedum pilosum
Size: 3-5 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-8
Are you a fan of pink color? This sedum will charm you with its brilliant pink flowers on deep red fleshy rosettes.
42. Jelly Bean
Botanical Name: Sedum rubrotinctum
Size: 1-3 inches
USDA Zone: 5-9
The leaves of the plant bear a resemblance to jelly beans. Its light green foliage gets a red tint when exposed to bright sun.
43. Smallii
Botanical Name: Sedum smallii
Size: 1-2 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-8
The tiny and lump leaves of the plant have a different tint of green, light pink, and faded red. Grows in clusters and great for small pots.
44. Aizoon Stonecrop
Botanical Name: Sedum aizoon
Size: 12-20 Inches
USDA Zone: 5-9
This branchless sedum variety has upright foliage with bright green leaves having toothed margins. It also grows bright yellow flowers.
45. Anglicum
Botanical Name: Sedum anglicum
Size: 2-4 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-8
This stubby succulent has plump and small leaves in grey-green color. When exposed to bright light and dry conditions, the foliage takes a deep tint of red.
46. Atratum
Botanical Name: Sedum atratum
Size: 1-2 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-8
The flowering stems of this sedum variety have fleshy leaves having green and red tint. This super-cute specimen will look great with other succulent varieties.
47. Baleensis
Botanical Name: Sedum baleensis
Size: 4-8 inches
USDA Zone: 5-9
This variety has deeper red to light green pointy leaves, depending on the sunlight exposure. Grows in a dense form.
48. Cockerellii
Botanical Name: Sedum cockerellii
Size: 5-6 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-9
The plant has flat-looking leaves in clusters with pointy ends, which makes them look like flowers. This variety also does well in shade.
49. Cremnophila
Botanical Name: Sedum cremnophila
Size: 7-9 inches
USDA Zone: 5-9
The bronze-green rosettes of this plant are tightly packed together making it look quite spectacular in pots. It looks more beautiful with yellow flowers in summer.
50. Dendroideum
Botanical Name: Sedum dendroideum
Size: 24-48 inches
USDA Zone: 4a-8
Not to be confused with Sedum praealtum, the plant has light green leaves of an unusual shape with bright red edges.
I love the selection you’ve highlited here. It’s rare to see such a variety of lesser known (to me) sedums.
I have a question. I have a stonecrop (what I think is a stonecrop) with nearly flourescent Pink tinged leaves, that when people see, their jaws drop. It’s leavelets are green varigating to bright purply pink, and flower with a bright ruby red flower. I sure wish I knew what it is, if only to be able to recommend it to others.
Thanks
There are Facebook plant groups. The one I am a member of is “Plant Identification and Gardening”. You can post a photo of a plant & members will weigh in and help you identify. Good luck. I would love to see it. Based on your description, it sounds beautiful!
Dream dazzler stonecrop, perhaps. Hopefully you see this even though it’s 2 years old. It’s unfortunate that they did not answer you.