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Hen-and-Chickens

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Google says Houseleek, Hens and Chicks, Sempervivum tectorum

Wikipedia says In addition to common houseleek, names include variations of the following:-; bullock's beard; devil's beard; earwort; fuet; healing blade; homewort; imbroke; Jove's beard; Jupiter's eye; poor Jan's leaf; red-leaved houseleek; roof foil; roof houseleek; St. George's Beard[6]; St. Patrick's cabbage; sengreen (its name in heraldry, as used in the arms of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge); Thor's beard; thunderplant; Welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk[7]—a name it sometimes shares with Sedum acre.[8]; hen and chicks - a name shared with several other plants[9];

The specific epithet tectorum means "of house roofs", referring to a traditional location for these plants

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LeafSnap says this is Hen-and-Chickens, also Houseleek.

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