If you've only ever seen Hen and Chicks being rosettes, you might not know that they do, from time to time, produce flowers!
This is what they normally look like: evergreen, never changing:
...in fact, that's what their genus name means: Semper is from the Latin relating to time, ongoing, long stretches of: and vivum relates to "being alive", which is probably where the word vivacious originates.
So Sempervivum means "always living". Or, in everyday gardening terms, "jolly hard to kill, no matter how much you neglect them". Also known as "perfect for the forgetful gardener."
Most of the time, they just sit there, being green and somewhat spiky round the edges, but occasionally they produce sudden, upright, sprouts:
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