Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Campanula rigidipila

Family: (Campanulaceae)

(P) to 12″.  This rare plant is the world’s most southerly occurring Campanula from Ethiopia and the Kenyan highlands.  From a clump of thick, triangular, hairy, grey-green leaves, arise strong, erect stems carrying pale buds that open to lovely, clear blue bells with flared tips edged with white hairs.  Summer-blooming.  Sun.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Schivereckia podolica

Family: (Brassicaceae)

(P) to 6”.  Eastern Europe.  A delightful, textured, ground-hugging mound for the rock garden.  Tight rosettes of grey-green, lanceolate foliage producing corymbs of brilliant white, four-petalled flowers.  Sun.  3 & T1

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Lewisia cotyledon hybrid Mix

Family: (Portulacaceae)

(P) to 10″.  California.  Lewisia commemorates Captain Merryweather Lewis (1774-1809).  Seed gathered from the Lewisia Collection in our Alpine House.  Foliage forms a basal rosette of fleshy, elongated leaves.  Clustered panicles of pink veined blooms in shades of salmon, pink and orange.  Well-drained soil.  Early summer.  Sun.  3 & 6

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Euphorbia myrsinites

Family: (Euphorbiaceae)

(P) to 6″.  Southern Europe.  Trailing, robust 12-inch stems with spiraling, blue-green, glaucous foliage.  Stems terminate in large heads of many greenish yellow bracts enclosing tiny, yellow flowers.  A perfect plant for a dry wall or sunny rock garden.  Blooms early summer.  Well-drained soil.  Self-seeds for us.  Sun.  3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Chrysanthemum weyrichii

Family: (Asteraceae)

(P) to 12″.  Japan and Kamchatka.  A welcomed fall bloomer with its large light pink, yellow-eyed daisies on branched stems.  An added bonus are the fleshy, deep green mats of palmately divided, five lobed foliage.  A loose, cushion-forming ground-cover for the rock garden.  Late summer to fall blooming.  Full sun and well-drained soil.  3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Hutchinsia alpina (syn. Hornungia alpina)

Family: Brassicaceae

(P) to 3″.  Chamois Cress.  South and central Europe.  This charming little creeper forms neat spreading mats of bright green, pinnate, fern-like foliage, topped with dense clusters of tiny, four-petalled, white flowers from spring to autumn. Even out of flower, this Cress makes a sweet impression. Sun and well-drained soil. 3 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Dianthus turkestanicus

Family: (Caryophyllaceae)

(P) to 12″.  China and Kazakhstan.  This gem forms mats of blue-green, fine foliage.  Fringed, pale pink, scented flowers cover the plant in mid-May.  Sun and well-drained soil.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Arenaria sajanensis (syn. Minuartia obtusiloba)

Family: (Caryophyllaceae)

(P) foliage to 3″, flowers to 6″.  Alaska to Oregon.  Bright green, mossy mat of fine, needle-like foliage.  Five-petalled, starry, white flowers with green veining cover the mat.  Tough and attractive rock garden plant.  Sun.  4 & T1

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Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Saponaria caespitosa

Family: (Caryophyllaceae)

 (P) to 6”.  Pyrenees.  Densely tufted, dark green foliage forms a mat, bursting forth with a blanket of pink, five-petalled flowers in late summer.  Great for the rock garden.  Tough.  Sun.  4 & T2

Scientific Name (Genus/Species): Gentiana dahurica

Family: (Gentianaceae)

(P) to 12″.  Dahurian Gentian.  Mongolia and China.  Tubular flowers, deep blue and paler within with white-spotted throats are formed terminally and in the leaf axil. Narrow, lanceolate leaves are shiny, bright green and strap-like, in two to three pairs.  An easy and carefree Gentian.  Blooms mid-to-late summer.  Sun to part shade in well-drained soil.  3 & 6