reminds me of a sedum ... and they live in my sand with nothing from me ... and august in MI is hot and dry ..... ken

Oh, I've got loads of sedum, but the leaves are a lot thicker on those. There are probably many kinds of sedum. Perhaps this is one.

It looks like sedum spectabile.

It is or was a Sedum until renamed. One of the Hylotelephium sp.

Yes, I tend to ignore new botanists quibbling ;)

One of the more frequent examples of the latter is 'Herbstfreude'. So it could turn out to be that one. The terminal flower heads develop in late summer, would be the feature used to figure out which particular cultivar it was.

Thank you. I like Hylotelephium/Sedum spectabile. (Stonecrop). That looks like it. Unbranched stems is one giveaway. But I will wait for flowers, which look to be quite spectacular. Of course, sedum propagates easily with cuttings, or even just random leaves laying on the soil.

pshaw ... its a sedum ... lol

and this never gets old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqJkG2XhQ8

btw.. you could probably propagate it with a weedwhip .. lol ...

Yeah, it's a sedum, but there are a zillion sedums. I wanted to know which one it was.

Other then the species I provided, we can't tell varieties without flowers (and even then...).

OK, let's try this again, now that I have flowers.

Is this perhaps "Autumn Joy"? That would indeed be a Herbstfreude.