Jovibarba heuffelii, common name Hen-and-chickens, as a plant species native to the Balkans and to the Carpathians in Europe but reportedly naturalized in Wisconsin and probably in other parts of North America. It grows on rocky outcrops.[2]

Jovibarba heuffelii
Jovibarba heuffelii, at a botanical garden in Wroclaw, Poland
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Crassulaceae
Genus:	Jovibarba
Species:	J. heuffelii
Binomial name
Jovibarba heuffelii (Schott) Á. Löve & D. Löve
Synonyms[1]
Sempervivum heuffelii Schott

Jovibarba heuffelii is a perennial herb forming basal rosettes of succulent leaves that are ciliate along the margins. Flowering stalks are erect, succulent, up to 20 cm (8 inches) tall, bearing a cyme of up to 40 white to yellowish flowers. Each flower is up to 5 cm (2 inches) in diameter, with 6-7 fringed petals. Each plant is semelparous, meaning that it flowers only once, dying after its fruits mature.[2][3][4]

Some botanists treat the genus Jovibarba as part of the genus Sempervivum, but the Flora of North America separates it into its own genus.[2]

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