House Leek

Sempervivum calcareum 'Sir William Lawrence' Crassulaceae

Other names

Hens And Chickens

Growth habit

Herbaceous

Perennation

Perennial

Location

Heasley Rock Garden

Source of plant

Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery

Description

Plants form dense rosettes of fleshy blue-gray leaves which shade to an intense purple-brown near the sharply pointed apex; flowers are pale pink held in a paniculate cyme held on 12"-15" tall stems enclosed in clasping leaves, effective in summer.

USDA Hardiness Zone

5