Species · genus Sedum · Crassulaceae

Wild Stonecrop

Sedum ternatum Michx.

Also known as: Whorled Stonecrop · Woodland Stonecrop

Growth habit

succulent subshrub

Native range

Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia

Reference · S. ternatum

Cultivars of S. ternatum

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under S. ternatum yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Sedum ternatum is a succulent subshrub native to shaded, rocky woodland slopes and stream banks across eastern North America, so unlike many sedums it tolerates less intense light and slightly more moisture than its desert relatives. Give it bright indirect light and gritty, fast-draining mix, and water only when the top inch or two of soil has gone dry. As a succulent it stores water in its leaves and rots if left sitting wet, so err toward the dry side.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 14 days

Humidity

Medium

Temperature

4–24 °C

Soil mix

Humus-rich but well-draining gritty mix

Propagation

Division or stem cuttings; creeping stems root as they spread

Fertilizing

Light feed once or twice in the growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

White star flowers in spring, unusual for a Sedum

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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