Sedum 'Thundercloud' - STONECROP 'THUNDERCLOUD'

"Unique pointed gray-green foliage emerges in spring on strongly mounding domes, slowly expanding to 10–12-inch mounds. White spectabile-type flowers bloom from the end of August into September."

Intrinsic Perennials

Flowering time: August-September

Size: 10-12" tall and wide

USDA zones: 4 to 8

Culture: full sun, half sun, half shade. Average soil with average moisture to drier and drained soil, poor soil, rocky, gritty, sandy soils. Avoid wet and waterlogged soils.

Moisture Needs: medium to medium-dry, dry, tolerant to summer droughts, heat and humidity

Origin: 2009 Brent Horvat's introduction (Intrinsic Perennials, Hebron, Illinois). Patented under PP21833, propagation for commercial purposes is prohibited.

Deer/rabbit resistant: no/no (depends on the deer/rabbit pressure, it's browsed whee overpopulated)

Tolerance to black walnut: yes

Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: yes - some butterflies, honey bees, some native bees

Attracts Hummingbirds: no

Plant combinations: Edges, rock gardens, larger containers, roof gardens, troughs, crevice gardens, pollinator garden. Good companions van be shorter Achillea, Asclepias tuberosa, Dalea, shorter Echinacea purpurea cultivars, bearded Iris, Lavandula, Nepeta x faasenii cultivars, Origanum vulgare and cultivars, shorter selections of Paeonia, Penstemon, shorter Rudbeckia, Salvia, Salvia nemorosa, Stachys ( 'Humello', 'Summer Romance', 'Pink Cotton Candy'), other Sedum, Thymus, Satureja, Yucca, and grasses (Koeleria, Muhlenbergia, Panicum - shorter selections), Schizachyrium, Sesleria, Sporobolus, Stipa tenuissima.

Pot size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot

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