- 1). Look for a fernlike plant that grows low to the ground and has green leaves in the summer that turn slightly auburn during the winter.
- 2). Check for flowers. Trailing sedums have yellow or pink flowers. They are very small (smaller than a penny) and are radially symmetric. When open, the flower--which should have five petals--tends to look like a very small lotus or star-shaped plant.
- 3). Examine and estimate the plant height. The trailing sedum grows low to the ground. The plant tends not to grow higher than 3 to 4 inches in length.
- 4). Carefully inspect the length of the ferns. The length of the plant's stems (which are fernlike) are roughly 1 foot in length (keep in mind that people may trim this back).
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