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The flowers on this plant are bright yellow and are nicely sized for such dense clusters. The cheerful flowers are on medium to tall flower stalks. The seed pods/fruits are also quite pretty. I'd actually NOT cut this back in winter, but instead remove the dead leaves and leave the stalks with the seed pods for winter interest.

The leaves on this plant form in sets of 3 leaves per node (as var. trifoliatum suggests. Tri + foliatum), though it seems that mutations are quite common: sometimes 2 leaves, 4 leaves, 2 leaves fused together....

This plant is not too aggressive in its present conditions (a meadow bed with a few competitors, mainly grassy weeds; soil around 60% good garden soil from garden-store, 40% nearly pure reddish clay). It does not seem to self-seed (will update if I find that it does) and does seem to clump up, but not in a messy way.

A very common sedum in landscaping.

This variety is extremely robust. Leaves "glow" yellow with orange tips. Plants can be quickly propagated by cutting off the top and sticking the cutting back into the soil.

This plant can grow in light shade, but the more sun the better.

Wild collected variety from Clair County, Alabama. Light pink, prostrate stems. Rosettes are cupped, leaves are somewhat skinnier than the species. Blooms branch profusely.

A wild-collected variety. Upright bright red stems, with slightly frilled light green cupped rosettes. The flower stalks fade to cream/light-green, and the flowers tend to have few but long branches.

This variety of S. ternatum has pinkish, prostrate stems, but somewhat more cupped/upright rosettes. Bloom stalks are quite short and compact, and rarely branch (branches are usually really high up on the bloom, so branches aren't very long).

Eriogonum caespitosum

The epithet "caespitosum" refers to the growth habit of this plant. It refers to how it grows in a clump or mat shape.

Dracocephalum grandiflorum

The epithet "grandiflorum" refers to the flowers being "grand" or "magnificent".

Cymbalaria aequitriloba

The epithet "aequitriloba" means "three equally-sized lobes", which refers to the flowers, and doesn't really apply to the leaves.

Cotula hispida

The epithet "hispida" means "bristly" or "hirsute", which refers to the texture of the leaves on this plant.

Corydalis solida

The epithet "solida" refers to the dense/thick foilage or flowers.

Azorella trifurcata

The epithet "trifurcata" means "three-forked", which refers to the leaves. "tri" means three, so I believe "furcata" has something to do with fork/s.

Asperula suberosa

The epithet "suberosa" refers to how this plant has corky wood or bark.

Armeria juniperifolia

The epithet "juniperifolia" refers to how this plant has leaves similar to a juniper.

Aquilegia bertolonii

The epithet "bertolonii" refers to the famous Italian botanist Antonio Bertoloni.

Anemone nemorosa

The epithet "nemorosa" refers to the habitat of this plant, which is the forest/woods.

Androsace sarmentosa

The epithet "sarmentosa" refers to how this plant has runners.

Allium flavum

The epithet "flavum" refers to a pure yellow color. This plant has bright yellow flowers (that emerge lime-green)

Allium cyaneum

The epithet "cyaneum" refers to the deep blue flower of this plant.

Frilly green leaves with cream-green edge.

Flower petals are somewhat "toothed", and petal count is quite high, but not double. Flower clusters are very compact and somewhat pom-pom like. This is a mix, so flower color varies. All the varieties except the Purple one have darker veining and white petal bases.

Lighter, somewhat lime-colored green leaves with sometimes wavy margins.

Long flower stalks, with clusters of flowers. Petal count seems to be high, but not really "double". The center of the flowers are brighter/yellow-er than the outside edge of the petals. Light veining. Flower color ranges from creamy white to peachy-yellow or pinkish-peach, to a somewhat vivid golden yellow depending on age.

This variety did well on the edge of a sandy garden bed in my zone 7A garden. I'd think that this plant would be especially wonderful hanging on a slope, edge or wall, with all the flower stalks gracefully bending down.