<i>Sedum </i>plant named ‘Boogie Woogie’

Abstract

The new and distinct cultivar of perennial Sedum plant named Boogie Woogie is characterized by drought-tolerant, winter-hardy, tight, low, clumps, flower stems that remain upright in the center of the plant throughout the growing season, small, medium-green, glossy foliage with variegated margin of cream blushed with reddish-purple and numerous bright yellow flowers clustered on small heads that completely covering the compact, low-mounded plant.

Claims

1. The new and distinct perennial Sedum plant named Boogie Woogie as herein described and illustrated useful for landscaping as a specimen plant, en masse or as a cut flower.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPH

(1) The photograph of the new plant demonstrates the unique traits and the overall appearance of Sedum Boogie Woogie. The colors are as accurate as reasonably possible with color reproductions of this type. Variations in ambient light spectrum, source and direction may cause the appearance of minor variation in color. The plants used in the photographs were one-year-old plants grown in an open, full-sun trial garden at a wholesale perennial nursery in Zeeland, Mich. with supplemental water and fertilizer when needed. No plant growth regulators have been used.

(2) FIG. 1 shows the plant in full flower habit.

(3) FIG. 2 shows a close-up of the foliage and young flower buds.

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

(4) The following is a detailed description of one-year-old plants of the new cultivar as grown outdoors in a full sun trial plot at a wholesale nursery in Zeeland, Mich. No plant growth regulators have been used. Plants of the new cultivar have not been tested under all possible conditions. The phenotype may vary with changes in environment, climate, and cultural conditions without change however in the genotype. The color reference is in accordance with the 2015 edition of The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart except where general color dictionary terms are used. Botanical designation: Sedum hybrid; Cultivar denomination: Boogie Woogie; Parentage: The naturally occurring branch sport of Little Miss Sunshine; Asexual propagation: Stem cuttings and division; Time to initiate roots: About two weeks; Time to finish a 3.7 liter flowering container: About three months in the summer from a rooted 2.5 cm plug; Root description: Thick, fleshy; freely branching; creamy white to light tan in color. Plant habit: Winter-hardy, succulent, herbaceous perennial; low mounded; multiple stiff stems, upright to outright, arising from a dense base; flower heads freely branching; dense and full, not developing open center later in the season; Growth rate: Moderately vigorous; Plant size: About 9.0 cm tall and 32.0 cm wide in full flower; foliage to about 8.5 cm tall and 30.0 cm wide; Main stems: Cylindrical; glabrous; glaucous; about 25 per plant; diameter at base about 2.5 mm, about 13 cm long from base to initial flower cymes; maintaining foliage to base of stem; internodes average about 3.5 mm; Main stem color: Variable; blend between RHS 148C and RHS 194C frequently blushed with between RHS 59C to RH 59D, to completely RHS 59C to RHS 59D; Lateral branches: Glaucous; about 1.5 mm diameter for lowest level branching and about 9.0 cm long; Lateral branch color: Nearest RHS 145D; Foliage: Opposite, simple; ovate; smooth; glabrous abaxial and adaxial; lustrous adaxial, and matte abaxial; base sessile and attenuate; apex rounded; margin crenate in distal one-half to one-third and entire in basal one-half to two thirds; about 1.2 mm thick, fleshy and succulent; to about 30.0 mm long and about 17.0 mm across near apex, average about 25.0 mm long, about 14.0 mm across at widest portion near apex, base tapering to about 1.5 mm across; decreasing in size distally; Foliage color: Young developing leavesadaxial center nearest RHS 137B, margin nearest RHS 8D with blush around edges of nearest RHS 60A, abaxial center between RHS N138D and RHS 191C with margin nearest RHS 158A and blush in margin of between RSH 60A and RHS 60B; fully developed leaves at flowering timeadaxial center between RHS N138C and RHS 191C, margin nearest RHS 11C with blush of between RHS 60A and RHS 60B, abaxial center between RHS N138D and RHS 191C, margin nearest RHS 158B with blush of between RHS 60A and RHS 60B; Venation: Pinnate; color same as surrounding leaf tissue on both surfaces; Flower: Rotate; upright; perfect; actinomophic; in terminal compound cymes; freely flowering habit with up to 21 flower buds and flowers per terminal branched cyme, 50 per branched stem and 1,000 per plant, covering nearly the entire foliage; Flower size: About 14.0 mm across and 7.0 mm long; Flower facing: Upward to outwardly; Flower fragrance: Not detected; Flowering season: Beginning early summer and continuing for about four weeks in Zeeland, Mich.; Longevity: Individual flower remain effective for about four to six days on the plant; individual flowers persistent; Flower buds about one day prior to opening: Broadly elliptic; apex acute; base rounded; about 8.0 mm long and 3.5 mm across; Flower bud color: Exposed petals nearest RHS 5C; Inflorescence: About 5.0 cm tall from first branch and 4.0 cm across; about 21 flowers per center cyme and 4 per cyme branch; Petals: Typically six (rarely four or five), lanceolate; acute apex, base truncate and fused, margin entire, glabrous; lustrous both adaxial and abaxial; typically about 7.0 mm long and about 2.2 mm across; Petal color: Adaxial and abaxial nearest RHS 2A; Sepals: Typically six, lanceolate; margin entire; glabrous and lustrous abaxial and adaxial; acute apex, truncate fused base; campanulate; about 3.0 mm long and about 1.2 mm wide at fused base; Sepal color: Nearest RHS 155A both adaxial and abaxial surfaces; Peduncles: Glabrous; cylindrical; strong and stiff, yet flexible; freely branching; angle erect in center to nearly 60 degrees from perpendicular for branched portions; flowering portion about 5.0 cm long and 3.5 cm across; Peduncle color: Variable; blend between RHS 148C and RHS 194C frequently blushed with between RHS 59C to RH 59D, to completely RHS 59C to RHS 59D; Pedicels: Cylindrical; lustrous; glabrous; strong and stiff, yet flexible; to about 3.0 mm long and 0.5 mm diameter; Pedicel color: Between RHS 148C to RHS 194C; Androecium: Typically ten; to 6.0 mm long; Filaments.Thin; cylindrical; upright; fused to petal base; about 5.0 mm long and about 0.5 mm diameter; color nearest RHS 7B. Anthers.Ellipsoidal; basifixed; longitudinal; about 1.0 mm long and about 0.5 mm wide; color nearest RHS 13A. Pollen.Abundant; color nearest RHS 13A. Gynoecium: Typically six, rarely four or five; cylindrical, conical in distal one third; Style.About 2.0 mm long and 0.5 mm diameter at point of attachment to ovary; glabrous; color nearest RHS 1A. Stigma.Minute; color nearest N144C. Ovary.Nearly cylindrical, tapering at apex to style; about 3.5 mm long and 1.0 mm diameter; color nearest RHS 1A. Seed and fruit: Have not yet been observed; Disease and pest resistance: Plants of the new Sedum Boogie Woogie grow best with good drainage, full sun and moderate to low fertility. Boogie Woogie is cold hardy from USDA zones 3 to 9. Boogie Woogie tolerates heavy rains and wind and does not tend to develop an open center later in the season as many other stonecrop cultivars do. Boogie Woogie is less prone to producing lethal white branch sports than Nonsitnal. Other pest and disease resistance and tolerance outside that normal for stonecrop is not known.