Sedum rubrotinctum is a low growing evergreen subshrub with a spreading habit. It is a great addition to raised borders, rockeries and pots both sitting and hanging.
It has very thin, wiry, stems with the fleshy leaves arranged in a spiral pattern around the stem. They can sometimes lose the lower leaves of each stem, especially in ultra dry conditions and in extreme conditions only carry leaves at the tip.
The leaves are short, around 2cms in length, quite thick and fleshy, ovate to cylindrical in shape with a glaucous (bluish) bloom
This is a popular plant because of its attractive jelly-bean shaped leaves that grow alternatively up the length of the arching stems.
The leaves are green when kept in the shade but the tips turn red when grown in the sun. For those plants that get full sun all day the leaves may turn a bronze colour all over. (hence the common name 'rubrotinctum')
In late spring, early summer clusters of tiny yellow flowers are borne on the end of stems.