Stepables®

STEPABLES® are tough, earth-friendly, easy-to-maintain perennials that take foot traffic. These little green heroes can liberate your landscape from that not-so-green mower, cut down on the use of chemicals and create lovely beds of color! Plus, they're quick to foster friendly habitats for all kinds of great beneficial critters. Smaller carbon footprint, anyone?

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Botanical Name     Common Name
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Sagina subulata
Common Name: Irish Moss
Dense, tufts of slender stems grow together to form a lush carpet of green. Small, star-shaped, white flowers cover it completely in spring. Ideal as a groundcover, terrific between rocks and stones.

Sagina subulata 'Aurea'
Common Name: Scotch Moss
Dense tufts of slender stems grow together to form a lush carpet of gold. Small, star-shaped white flowers engulf plant in the spring. Ideal between pavers, terrific between rocks and stones.

Saponaria x oliviana
Common Name: Polish/Cushion Soapwort
A creeping evergreen which forms a neat mat of tidy narrow succulent leaves, with lots of pink flowers opening from soft, hairy buds in late spring or early summer. Prefers lean soil and good drainage. Light foot traffic.

Sedum acre
Common Name: Goldmoss Stonecrop
Perfect sedum for pathways and borders. Deep green carpet becomes completely engulfed with yellow flowers in summer. Foliage turns a beautiful shade of red during cold months. Semi-evergreen.

Sedum album 'Coral Carpet'
Common Name: Stonecrop
Small, rounded succulent leaves emerge salmon-coral, mature to bright green and turn reddish-bronze in winter or in the heat of summer. Clusters of tiny white to pale pink flowers appear above the foliage in early summer. Quickly forms a dense mat.

Sedum album chloroticum 'Baby Tears'
Common Name: Stonecrop
Teardrop shaped succulent forms a tight green carpet, turning red in autumn. White flower spikes in summer top this creeper. Great for rock garden paths, or spilling over banks and rock walls. Shade tolerant. Prefers average to dry soil.

Sedum hispanicum 'Purple Form'
Common Name: Blue Carpet Stonecrop
Tight clusters of gray-blue, succulent leaves take on deep blue to purple shades in winter. Plants are completely covered with small pink flowers in late summer. Prefers average to dry soil. Light foot traffic. Space on 6" centers.

Sedum kamtschaticum 'Variegatum'
Common Name: Variegated Stonecrop
Light green and cream foliage tinted with pink. Yellow flowers fade to orange. Drought tolerant, easy to grow in well-drained, average soil. Particularly adapted for use in rock gardens or in borders. Also tolerant of coastal conditions.

Sedum requieni
Common Name: Miniature Stonecrop
Tough, low maintenance plant with tiny green leaves that form a tight evergreen mat. Perfect for dry paths, gravel walkways, around shrubs and roses. Minuscule yellow stars appear in summer. Moderate foot traffic. Space on 4" centers.

Sedum spurium 'John Creech'
Common Name: John Creech Stonecrop
Pink flowers in June over small, shell-shaped succulent evergreen foliage. Attractive to butterflies. Deer resistant. Easy to grow in well-drained, average soil. Drought tolerant, they are particularly adapted for use in rock gardens.

Stachys densiflora 'Alba'
Common Name: Betony
Dense mats of crinkled, medium green, elongate, finely scalloped leaves set off white blooms for much of the summer.