Wildflower (forb) · Crassulaceae
Ditch stonecrop
Penthorum sedoides
Ditch stonecrop is recorded as native to 37 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,323 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Key facts · USDA PLANTS
Ditch stonecrop at a glance
- Native in
- 1,323 counties, across 37 states and territories
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 4b PLANTS minimum temperature −28°F
- Mature height
- 2.6 ft PLANTS mature height
- Light and water
- Sun to part shade Medium water use
Estimated cold hardiness: zone 4b. PLANTS gives a minimum temperature of −28°F; zone 4b winters bottom out at −25°F, the coldest half-zone that stays within that limit.
Ditch stonecrop is recorded as native to 37 states and territories in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in 1,323 counties of those states by USDA PLANTS.
Counties where it is native
The 15 counties with the most ZIP codes among the 1,323 where it is listed.
Native counties by state
- Alabama 27 counties
- Arkansas 48 counties
- Connecticut statewide record
- Delaware 1 county
- District of Columbia 1 county
- Florida 8 counties
- Georgia 20 counties
- Illinois 100 counties
- Indiana 82 counties
- Iowa 14 counties
- Kansas 52 counties
- Kentucky 59 counties
- Louisiana 57 counties
- Maine 11 counties
- Massachusetts 12 counties
- Michigan 41 counties
- Minnesota 54 counties
- Mississippi 37 counties
- Missouri 92 counties
- Nebraska 33 counties
- New Hampshire 6 counties
- New Jersey 17 counties
- New York 43 counties
- North Carolina 48 counties
- North Dakota 6 counties
- Ohio 75 counties
- Oklahoma 9 counties
- Pennsylvania 64 counties
- Rhode Island 2 counties
- South Carolina 26 counties
- South Dakota 4 counties
- Tennessee 56 counties
- Texas 28 counties
- Vermont 9 counties
- Virginia 86 counties
- West Virginia 33 counties
- Wisconsin 62 counties
Growing traits
Values from the PLANTS characteristics record. “Not recorded” means PLANTS has no value; nothing here is estimated except the zone.
Growth
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Mature height
- 2.6 ft
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Growth form
- Stoloniferous
- Shape
- Erect
- Lifespan
- Moderate
- Active growth period
- Spring
Light and water
- Shade tolerance
- Intermediate (sun to part shade)
- Moisture use
- Medium water use
- Drought tolerance
- Medium
- Tolerance of waterlogged soil
- Low
- Precipitation range
- 30 to 50 in per year
Soil
- Soil textures
- Fine
- pH range
- 5 to 7
- Lime (CaCO₃) tolerance
- Medium
- Salinity tolerance
- None
- Fertility requirement
- Medium
- Minimum root depth
- 14 in
Climate
- Minimum temperature
- −28°F
- Estimated cold hardiness
- Zone 4b and warmer
- Minimum frost-free days
- 120
- Fire tolerance
- Not recorded
Flowers, leaves and fruit
- Flower color
- Yellow
- Showy flowers
- No
- Bloom period
- Spring
- Foliage color
- Green
- Showy in fall
- No
- Keeps leaves
- No
- Fruit color
- Not recorded
Other
- Toxicity
- None
- Nitrogen fixation
- None
- Nursery availability
- Routinely Available
- Family
- Crassulaceae
- PLANTS symbol
- PESE6
Source & data date
- Source
- USDA NRCS PLANTS Database: county distribution records, native status and plant characteristics. CC0 (public domain dedication, per the data.gov catalog record).
- Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP): native or introduced status by state. CC BY 3.0.
- USGS US-RIIS (ver. 2.0): species listed as introduced are excluded. CC0.
- Citation
- USDA, NRCS. 2026. The PLANTS Database (https://plants.usda.gov, 11/04/2026). National Plant Data Team, Greensboro, NC USA.
- Govaerts R. (ed.) (2026). WCVP: World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data file dated 2026-06-04, http://sftp.kew.org/pub/data-repositories/WCVP/ (retrieved 2026-11-04). Paper: Govaerts R. et al. (2021) The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. Scientific Data 8, 215.
- Data date
- Retrieved from PLANTS on November 4, 2026; WCVP data file dated June 4, 2026.
- Scope
- Penthorum sedoides (PLANTS symbol PESE6).
- Method
- A species is listed when it is recorded as native to the state in Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS, and recorded in the county by USDA PLANTS. Species PLANTS labels both native and introduced are listed separately. Full method · All sources