Texas Gardening: Texas Native Plant Pictures by color ( Yellow ), 1 by KayeTX

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Yellow Stonecrop
Sedum nuttallianum Crassulaceae

Native throughout Texas, Stonecrop can be seen flowering across the rocky hillsides turning them a chartreuse shade of green to a golden yellow. They grow right out of the porous limestone rock. Stonecrop is very adaptable to soil, just requires that it is well draining.

Stonecrop grows no more than 4 inches high as it is a sprawling succulent that spreads and forms a mat to cover bare ground. It thrives in dry hot locations, complementing small cacti, or dangling out of rock crevices in a rock or alpine garden. The stems break easily so you do not want to put stonecrop in a walkway.

Very cold hardy, drought tolerant, shade tolerant, and easily roots by stem cuttings makes stonecrop a great groundcover in xeric garden. Usually you see stonecrop flower in the spring and early summer, but can flower into the fall when it receives supplementary water.

http://wildflower.utexas.edu/plants/result.php?id_plant=SENU