The open plant encyclopedia
Snap a photo or search by any name to see how to care for it, where it comes from, whether it's safe, and a 3D model you can turn.
The plants people record most in your country, and ones that grow there wild.
Filter by what you want to do, shape, origin, country, care and safety.
Sempervivum ciliosum
Teneriffe Houseleek is a colony-forming evergreen succulent rosette plant from the Balkans and southeastern Europe, forming dense mats as its offsets spread. It grows best in full sun with sharp drainage, as it dislikes wet roots despite the source's tag.
Sempervivum ciliosum is a species of flowering plant in the succulent stonecrop family, Crassulaceae, native to the Balkans and Southeastern Europe. A colony-forming evergreen perennial plant, each individual rosette can grow to around 7.5 cm (3.0 in) high and wide, forming dense mats of up to 50 cm (20 in) wide.
Houseleeks produce multiple baby plantlets ('chicks') from the sides of a mature 'mother' ('hen') plant, which are attached by an 'umbilical cord'-like appendage until they take root and become reliably self-sufficient. A plantlet's goal is to take root and spread the colony, either by breaking themselves off of the mother plant via flooding events, erosion or animal damage, or by simply taking root wherever they happen to be. The leaves are a teal-green colour, slightly pointed, succulent and slightly hairy (an adaptation against sunburn).
Hen and chickens · Houseleek · Cobweb House Leek · Limestone Houseleek · Jovibarba globifera · Sempervivum pittonii · Common houseleek · Houseleek
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sempervivum ciliosum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
