#JUNIAZKA Sedum adolphi GOLDEN GLOW, also known as Sedum nussbaumerianum, is a lovely, much-branched succulent shrub with spreading, sprawling, or ascending stems and yellow-green leaves that take on the orange-red highlights in full sun. It grows up to 12 inches (30 cm) tall. Leaves are broadly lanceolate to obovate and up to 1.2 inches (3 cm) long. As stems age, they produce new leaves, shedding the oldest. The white, lightly fragrant flowers appear in flat-topped umbel-like inflorescences from late winter to spring. The late Henk 't Hart and Bert Bleij wrote the Sedum section in the lexicon "Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Crassulaceae" and noted Sedum nussbaumerianum to be very similar if not identical to Sedum adolphi. In "Sedum of North America North of the Mexican Plateau," Robert Clausen treated them as separate species in his book based on small differences in the inflorescences (Sedum nussbaumerianum has flowers all in the same plane, while Sedum adolphi has petals at different levels in cymes). However, the facts indicate that S. nussbaurianum should be regarded as a synonym of S. adolphi. The two plants have the same chromosome count; they came from plants grown from the same source (seeds gathered by Carl Purpus in 1907), and both have corymbiform inflorescences. Therefore, with a priority of 12 years, Sedum adolphi is the valid name.