It could also be Senecio vitalis or S. scarposus...there are a few with this same appearance. Can you post a pic? Was this plant residing in full sun prior to purchasing it? If not, it should have been acclimated.... They don't need tons of water...let it dry out and keep in indoors for awhile until you think it is ok, then acclimate it slowly to the outdoors...shaded area first with careful observation.

Here is the only pic of my Sedum oxypetalum I can find: I've had it about 1.5 years now. I still don't fully understand it's growing habits. I got it underpotted/rootbound in the spring. It was in full leaf. It flowered late that summer. I brought it indoors last winter, but it had not enough light. I know that now. It lost all it's leaves due to yellowing. Then the new growth branches died back. I thought I was going to lose it. I repotted it into a bigger pot, and let it sit. It was dormant all the rest of winter/spring, and mid this summer it woke up again. Now it is in flower again. So... This guy is typically a winter grower? I want it to get as big as possible, then do a drastic cutback like I mentioned before somewhere. Next time my dioscoreas put out new growth, I will pot them waaaay up. I'm still on the fence about doing a raised grow bed. In seattle we get lots of winter rain. I would need to cover them so they don't freeze.

Tea. Age is relative. There's a reason that 'buckets of rain' run off properties. If you look around 99.9% of properties, they're predominately impervious. And grass (as hard as concrete when it gets dry) is part of that problem along with extensive gargantuan driveways (that are pitched to the street and not into adjoining gardens away from the foundation), patios, etc. etc. As for preaching to the choir, maybe not you. But the majority out there remain uninformed relative to the alternatives. They want that green perfect lawn. They want perfection. Nature AIN'T perfect. You know that. I know that. But that's what is SOLD to them via the media, just like "thin" is SOLD, or Beer is Sold. My downspouts run into oak leaf littered beds (that's my mulch, and I live in the suburbs, surrounded by pedestrian landscapes in a BEAUTIFUL, I mean Truly BEAUTIFUL neighborhood with hundreds of oaks). What rain falls and makes it to the ground (from my 80' oaks) ALSO fall into garden beds. Solution????? Do away with most of the grass on one's property. That would be a start. I don't expect so when it's a $20B/year industry. I haven't watered much in the way of my gardens this year (relying on rain that fell prior to this dry spell) and only recently watering those plants that needed it. All of my plantings, save a few ornamentals, are self-sustaining. See, I've had to water some of the garden that lies on the south side of my property of late. A lacecap hydrangea has needed much more watering than in the past. Some perrenials are needing water. Why???? Dopey neighbors who took down 3 oaks and then there neighbors who took down another 2 themselves. Gone is the dappled sunlight that my South Garden prospered under. Otherwise, the natives (while somewhat stressed) will survive. It's no different than if one took a walk in the woods today....a bit stressed, but they will survive. It's the CHEAP CHEAP stuff, that can be grown fast and brought to market that needs all the watering. They provide nothing for wildlife (being predominately sterile in terms of food opps, etc) and grow so darn quick when planted, I feel like I'm in the Edward Scissorhands movie sometimes. Viwing Lollipopped and after Lollipopped shrub after shrub Tell me NJTea. Who's going to be planting the "new generation" of Forest trees (oaks, tulips, beech)????? Or will the planet survive on eyunomous, junipers, and yews? That's my finger wagging as the gentleman from Plainfield alluded to. Can you help him with his brown lawn? Or has the remnants of Katrina 'soothed his pain'? I will not go "gently into that night" even two decades hence. Someone's got to 'shake up' the status quo.

Pat, My place is sited on a heavy, compacted clay loam over a thick almost impermeable layer of caliche/limestone down about 4 feet. Also, a lot of caliche is on the surface after 90 years of people doing various kinds of excavations and building driveways, tractor yards, etc. at this old farmstead The perennial wildflowers that survive here the best and that aren't too weedy are as follows: Chocolate Daisy (Berlandiera lyrata), Engelmann's Daiay (Engelmannia ?), and Mexican Hat. I have had a Calylophus species (hartweggii?) look really good, too. A couple of sub-shrubs give me the most reliable season-long color: Salvia greggii and Texas Lantana (Lantana horrida). Tom