Sedum glaucophyllum
A small, mat-forming evergreen stonecrop of the central Appalachians, with blue-green leaf rosettes and clusters of white four-petalled flowers on short stems. It is a hardy rock-garden plant that wants cold winters, bright but not baking light and fast-draining stony soil, and it does poorly as a warm indoor succulent.
Where it grows wild
Recorded across the Ridge and Valley and Blue Ridge country of Virginia and West Virginia, with outliers in Maryland and North Carolina. Like other Appalachian cliff stonecrops it grows in thin soil on rock outcrops, ledges and cliff faces, often in partial shade; this is inferred from the genus and region rather than species-specific habitat notes.
Sixteen dated records span near sea level to about 1,290 m, median about 760 m; most points sit in the mountain valleys and ridges, not the coastal plain.
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