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Sempervivum - Wikipedia
Sempervivum is a genus of about 40 species of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, commonly known as houseleeks. Other common names include ...
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Sempervivum tectorum (Common Houseleek, Hens and Chicks ...
It is often used in rock gardens, as a border front, in rock crevices, along stone walls, as a small area ground cover, and as an edging or foundations. Makes ...
plants.ces.ncsu.edu
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Common Houseleek - Sempervivum tectorum 'Hens and Chicks'
These houseleek plants thrive in bright, direct sunlight. Find a spot in your garden or balcony where they can receive at least 6-8 hours of direct sunlight ...
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houseleek
houseleek (ˈhaʊsliːk) Forms: see house and leek: also 6–7 houselike, 7 houslicke. [OE. type *h{uacu}sléac, f. h{uacu}s house n.1 + léac leek = MDu. huuslooc, MLG. hûslôk, Du. huislook; MHG. huslouch, Ger. hauslauch; Da. huuslög, Sw. huslök.] The plant Sempervivum tectorum, a succulent herb with pink...
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Houseleek: hardiness, flowering & propagation - Plantura Magazin
Houseleeks are hardy evergreen perennial plants that grow as clumps. They form leaf rosettes with a species-dependent diameter between 1 and 20 cm.
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House Leek, Sedum, or Stonecrop | Blind Pig and The Acorn
The name house leek came from the fact that lots of old homeplaces had the plant growing around the edge of the house where the water run off (house leak).
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Sempervivum altum
Like other members of the houseleek genus, it grows succulent leaves in rosettes.
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Houseleek - Plant-Lore
Local lore around Wymondham, where I was born, insists that one puts a houseleek on the roof to keep witches and lightning away.
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Common Houseleek Care 101: Water, Light & Growing Tips - Greg
Common Houseleek requires abundant, bright and direct light. Place it less than one foot from a window to ensure it receives enough light to survive.
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Sempervivum tectorum (Common Houseleek) - Gardenia.net
A mat-forming succulent forming attractive, evergreen rosettes, up to 4 in. wide (10 cm), packed with fleshy, pointed, blue-green leaves, adorned with reddish- ...
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Help with Houseleek : r/succulents - Reddit
If you choose to keep in a pot outdoors, it will need a very gritty soil mix to help combat precipitation. It'll prefer to be in ground, if ...
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Plant Story: Common Houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum, Folklore
Houseleek means "house plant." Leek, and spelling variants such as leac, is an old Anglo-Saxon word for plant, most often used for garlic ( ...
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sempervivum
‖ sempervivum (sɛmpəˈvaɪvəm) [L. sempervīvum neut. of sempervīvus ever-living. The fem. sempervīva (sc. herba) was also used.] a. The houseleek. b. A genus (Linnæus 1737) of crassulaceous plants containing the houseleek, S. tectorum and about 50 other species; a plant of this genus.1591 Percyvall Sp...
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Sedum hispanicum
Sedum is the Latin name of the adjoining genus, Sempervivum, houseleek. It is
derived from sedare, to appease, to tranquillize, since the houseleek cultivated on housetops was supposed to take away the thunder, or probably
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sempervive
† sempervive Obs. Also 8 (after Sp.) sempre vive. [Anglicized form of sempervivum. Cf. F. † sempervive (Cotgr. 1611), Sp. siempreviva.] The houseleek.1625 Purchas Pilgrims I. 277 An herbe (which for his forme is scarce to be discerned from a Semperuiue). 1626 Bacon Sylva §29 The greater Semperviue.....
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