Common name: Echeveria
Family: Crassulaceae, Stonecrop
Height x width: 4-12" x 6-12"
Growth rate: moderate
Foliage: rosettes of often colorful leaves, fleshy, alternate, of various shapes often to 2" long; touching glaucous leaves may leave spots
Flowers: in racemes or panicles on long stalks from leaf axils; spreading or erect petal lobes
Light: bright to full sun
Temperature: cool to average, cool often enhances leaf colors
Watering: allow to dry between waterings, keep off rosette
Fertility: low
Humidity: dry
Soil: well-drained as cactus
Pests and Problems: soft rot, leaf and stem rots when water stands in the rosette, mealybugs
Growth habit, uses: desert/dry garden indoors, pots, terraria
Other interest: native to semi-desert areas from Texas to Central America; named for Atanasio Echeverria, a botanist involved with the 19th century Flora Mexicana
Propagation: leaf cuttings
Species:
Of the 150 or so species, the following may be most often seen.
| Species | foliage | flowers |
| agavoides | waxy, pale green, reddish margins | red, yellow tips |
| ciliata | dark green, red margins, bristle tips | red or yellow-red |
| crenulata | pale green, wavy or flat red margins | yellowish red |
| derenbergii | white frosted, light green | bell-shaped, yellow |
| elegans | silvery-blue, red margins | pink, yellow tips |
| gibbiflora | gray-green tinted red | pale red, yellow inside |
| goldieana | green, blunt, small points | pink, green tips, nodding |
| harmsii | light green, red margins | red, orange tips |
| nodulosa | light green, red margins | red, yellow tips |
| peacockii | white frosted, red tips/margins | red, red-pink |
| pilosa | green, white hairy, reddish stems | orange red, yellow inner |
| pulvinata | green, white hairy, red fall margins | yellow, yellow-red |
| secunda | glaucous, pale green to gray, red tips | red, yellow inside |
| setosa | green, dense white hairy | red, yellow tips and inside |
Return to Perry's
Perennial Pages | PSS121
course
