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Aethionema
caespitosum - Clusters of pink blossoms
in summer on a dense shrublet to about 12 inches in height. Native
to the mountains of Armenia. $4.00 |
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Aethionema
grandiflorum - Bright pink flowers in a lax raceme in
summer on sbrubs to 12 inches. Native to dry, rocky slopes in
Iran, Turkey, and the northern Caucasus. Does well in sunny, dry
spots with poor, but well-drained soil. $4.00 |
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Aethionema
pulchellum - Dense racemes of rose-colored flowers in
early summer on subshrubs to 12 inches. Native to rocky slopes
in the Caucasus Mountains and adjacent ranges of western Asia.
$4.00 |
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Aethionema
spicatum - Dense capitate racemes of pink flowers in
early summer from a woody-based subshrub to about 6 inches. From
rocky slopes in Syria and Turkey. $4.00 |
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Aethionema
saxatile - Purplish to lilac flowers in compact heads
in early summer on ascending subshrubs to 10 inches. Native to
rocky slopes in the Euopean mountains of the Mediterranean. Sunny,
dry spots in poor, but well drained soils in full sun. $4.00 |
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Aethionema
sp. ex Mt. Olympus - Grown from seed and not yet flowering
in our garden. The leaves are somewhat fleshy and oblong in shape.
Based on the Flora Europaea, there are several possiblities, and
we should be able to provide a correct name before long. C’mon,
its Reno . . . roll the dice. $3.00 |
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Androsace
darvasica - A compact cushion with delicate white flowers
with yellow eyes on short scapes. Native to the Pamir Mountains
of Turkestan. Best in a trough with some shade during the summer
months. First to flower in our greenhouse this spring. $6.00 |
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Androsace
lactea - White flowers with a yellow eye in early summer
borne in a long umbel. A lax cushion from 2 to 6 inches in height.
In its native range in the European mountains, it grow in rocks
and screes. In cultivation, it does well in rock crevices with
adequate water, poor but well-drained soils and shade during the
summer. Excellent trough plant. $6.00 |
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Androsace
salicifolia - Abundant white flowers in May on multiple
stems to 8 inches arising from a basal rosette of willow-like
leaves. This is a self-seeding biennial that does well in full
sun and a well-drained soil. A good choice for the low border.
$6.00 |
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Arenaria
alfacarensis - White flowers in late spring and summer
on a loose cushion. Excellent choice for sunny, dry, rock crevices
or troughs. Native to the Pyrenees Mountains and Sierra Nevada
of Spain and France. Some of you purchased this as A. tetraquetra
at the 2006 NARGS meeting. Ours thrives in tufa. $6.00 |
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Campanula
saxifraga aucheri - Grown from seed with
this name. C. saxifraga and C. aucheri are often treated as separate
species in a larger group of small prostrate bellflowers mostly
from the Caucasus Mountains. According to Holubec and Krivka (2006),
C. saxifraga differs in its glabrous corolla. Ours have not yet
flowered, but I will keep you updated. Both species have large
violet blue bell-shaped flowers. Either is a great choice for
sunny rock crevices, screes, and larger troughs. $6.00 |
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Delphinium
andersonii - Widespread and locally common
throughout the Great Basin, these are grown from seed collected
from a windswept low sagebrush desert in cental Nevada, where
it grows with the cream-colored form of Erigonum rosense var.
beatleyae. The clay-rich soils on these volcanic hills dries to
brick by mid-summer. By that time, the dark-blue flowers of this
May bloomer are a distant memory. $5.00 |
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Dianthus
alpinus - Pink to red flowers appear in late spring on
this classic alpine cushion with shiny green basal leaves. Native
to the eastern Alps, where the Flora Europaea reports it to be
very rare. Does best with sufficient moisture and partial shading.
Excellent in tufa. $5.00 |
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Dianthus
freynii - Pink flowers in late spring on a cushion of
linear gray-green leaves. Height is about 4 inches. From the mountains
of the Balkan peninsula. Full sun in a site with sufficient moisture.
$5.00 |
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Dianthus
pavonius - Pink flowers atop scapes to about 4 inches
in late spring from a mat of small, rigid leaves. From the grasslands
of the Alps. Full sun with sufficient moisture. $5.00 |
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Dodecatheon
pulchellum - One of the most common and widespread species
Throughout its range, which includes much of North America, it
occurs in wet meadows. These were grown from seed collected from
plants growing in an alkaline seep within one of the hottest,
driest life zones in the Great Basin. $5.00 |
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Draba
aizoides - Lemon yellow flowers in spring that rise several
inches above tight rosettes of sharply toothed leaves. Best in
a sunny position in crevices among rocks or in a trough. Does
well on limestone and tufa. Native to the mountains of central
Europe, from the Carpathians to the Pyrenees, and in Britain.
Second to flower in our greenhouse this spring after Androsace
darvasica. $6.00 |
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Draba
crassifolia - Yellow flowers in spring in racemes that
rise to about an inch above a mat of lanceolate leaves. This native
of alpine screes in the mountains of the Northern Hemisphere does
well in gravelly, semi-shady sites with sufficient moisture. $6.00 |
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Draba
parnassica - Yellow flowers in spring to several inches
above a cushion of tight rosettes. From rocky slopes in subalpine
areas of the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula. Perfect for sunny
dry crevices in the rock garden or in troughs. $6.00 |
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Edraianthus
dinaricus - Blue-violet bellflowers about
3/4-inch across in late spring borne singly on 1 to 3 inch stems
from compact, silvery cushions. Rock crevices in full sun. $6.00 |
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Edraianthus
pumilio - Similar to E. dinaricus, but more compact and
with slightly larger flowers. Rock crevices or troughs in full
sun. $6.00 |
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Edraianthus
serpyllifolius - Deep purple flowers nearly an inch across
and spatulate leaves distinguish this species from the two above
(which have linear leaves). $6.00 |
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Eriogonum
caespitosum - A classic cushion forming wild buckwheat,
widespread in western North America from desert valleys to dry
mountain peaks. These are grown from garden seed. Tight heads
of yellow flowers on 3 inch scapes in May and June. Excellent
in the rock garden or larger troughs. $5.00 |
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Eriogonum
ovalifolium var. purpureum - This species is also widespread
in western North America, where it has 12 named varieties, among
which are two federally endangered species. This selection is
grown from seed of a common variety from the southern Oregon Cascades.
Forms mats spreading to 8 inches with cream-colored flowers in
compact clusters on scapes to 8 inches from late May through August.
Does well in rock crevices or well-drained soils. $5.00 |
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Eriogonum
ovalifolium var. nivale - A variety from high elevation
in scattered mountain ranges of western North America. Tighter
cushions and shorter scapes than the typical variety makes it
an excellent choice for troughs but it also does well in the well-drained
rock garden. $6.00 |
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Eriogonum
rosense var. beatleyae - This lower elevation variety
forms a low mat spreading to about 8 inches bearing tight clusters
of flowers on scapes to 6 inches. Found on dry sites in the western
Great Basin; southern populations are said to have yellow flowers
while northern populations tend to be cream-colored. These were
grown from seed we collected from a northern population with cream-colored
flowers growing in clay-rich soils weathered from volcanic rocks.
The clay dries to a brick-like hardness by mid-summer. Flowers
in May and June in its natural habitat..Very hardy, but do not
overwater. $6.00 |
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Eriogonum
rosense var. rosense - Restricted in its range to mountain
tops from the central Sierra Nevada east to the mountain ranges
of western Nevada, this is one of the best for the rock garden
or trough. Compact heads of bright yellow flowers on scapes to
3 inches from tight cushions. Grown from seed we collected above
10,000 feet on Mt. Rose, Nevada, the type locality for the species.
$6.00 |
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Eriogonum
siskiyouense - Endemic to a small area in the coast ranges
of Northern California. Grown from seed collected from the Klamath
Mountains. Tight heads of yellow flowers on scapes to 8 inches
from a woody mat. $6.00 |
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Eriophyllum
lanatum var. integrifolium - Bright yellow 2-inch sunflowers
borne througout the summer on leafless scapes from a semi-woody
subshrub to 15 inches. Ideal for border planting in the dry garden.
Grown from seed collected in the Columbia River Gorge. This variety
is one of the most widespread in the genus, occuring from east
of the Cascades in the Pacific Northwest south to California,
and east across the Great Basin to Wyoming and (barely) Utah.
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Globularia
repens (= G. nana) - A dwarf shrub forming
a tight, dense mat of lanceolate, evergreen leaves. In summer,
short stems carry deep blue to lilac flowers in globes. From the
Alps and the mountains of the Balkan Peninsula. For a crevice
in the rock garden, especially in tufa, or in a trough. Jim Jermyn
(2006) provides advice on its culture in areas with damp, mild
winters, noting that the best plants he has seen were planted
directly into tufa. $6.00 |
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Globularia
trichosantha - A tufted rosette of spathulate leaves
bearing stems to several inches topped with globes of blue flowers
in summer. Good for a sunny well drained site, among rocks, or
in a trough. Avoid wet conditions in winter. $6.00 |
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Gypsophila
imbricata - Among the best of the cushion formers, with
a tight mat of bright green leaves. Ours have not yet flowered,
but we will update the catalog when we have new information .
Grown from seed collected by Mojmir Pavelka in the Caucasus Mountains
of Russia. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
acuminatus - Small, bright blue or paler
flowers
atop stout stems to 18 inches with thick, gray-green leaves. A
late-spring bloomer best suited for sandy soils in full sun. Native
to eastern Washington and Oregon and adjacent areas of Idaho and
Nevada. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
albertinus - An excellent rock garden plant with small,
bright-blue to blue purple flowers on stems to about 12 inches
in height above a basal mat of toothed leaves. Blooms in early
to mid-summer. Native to Idaho, western Montana, eastern British
Columbia and adjacent Alberta. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
albidus - As the name indicates, a white-flowered species
that grows in sandy to gravelly soils in its native habitat. Up
to 12 inches and forming clumps as wide. A prairie species distributed
from southern Alberta and Manitoba to New Mexico and Texas. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
angustifolius - Small, pale-blue, pink or lavender flowers
in late-sprng borne on 12 to 24 inches stems with narrow leaves.
Occurs in sandy to gravelly dry places from North Dakota to New
Mexico and west to Arizona and Utah. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
arenicola - An excellent rock garden or trough plant
with small, bright-blue flowers on stems to 8 inches with fleshy,
blue-green leaves. Its native habitat is sands and shales in the
Red Desert of southwestern Wyoming and adjacent Utah. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
aridus - Best appreciated in a trough, the small blue
flowers are borne on stems to 6 inches over low mats of slender
leaves. It blooms in late-spring and early-summer in its sagebrush
habitats of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
attenuatus - Clusters of blue flowers along stems to
2 feet arising from spreading clumps of basal leaves. From meadows
and forest opening in the Rocky Mountains from Wyoming and Montana
through Idaho to eastern Washington. Prefers more moisture than
most. A good choice for the low border. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
auriberbis - Upward-facing, pale lavender flowers with
a conspicuous golden-bearded staminode on stems to 10 inches.
A late spring bloomer native to the plains of southeastern Colorado
and northeastern New Mexico. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
barrettiae - Large, rose-lavender to lilact flowers in
late spring held on short stems that rise from large clumps of
succulent evergreen leaves. Rare in its native range in the Columbia
River Gorge of Oregon and Washington. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
brandegei - Large blue to blue-violet flowers in a dense,
one-sided inflorescence. An excellent early to mid-summer bloomer
for the dry garden. Native to southern Colorado and northern New
Mexico. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
breviculus - Blue to purple flowers in May to June on
plants to 12 inches. Native to sagebrush habitats and pinyon-juniper
woodlands in the Four Corners area of the Southwest. Reported
to be long-lived in the dry or rock garden. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
cardwellii - Bright purple flowers in late-spring and
early summer on short stems from an evergreen shrub to 12 inches
spreading to 2 feet or more. Native to the Cascade Range from
northern California to Washington. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
cardinalis - Pendant crimson flowers borne on sturdy
stems to about 30 inches. Excellent choice to add mid- to late-summer
color to the dry garden. Also arracts hummingbirds. Native to
the canyons of southern New Mexico and Texas, but it has proven
to be hardy much farther north. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
carnosus - Blue-violet flowers in late spring and early
summer on plants to 18 inches with fleshy, bluish leaves. Endemic
to central and northeastern Utah. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
caryi - Deep blue flowers in May to June on stems to
16 inches. Native to sagebrush and open pine woodlands in the
Big Horn Mountains of northern Wyoming and adjacent Montana. Paired
with the yellow-flowered P. confertus in our garden, the two put
on an eye-catching display. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
confertus - Pale-yellow flowers on stems to 18 inches
in May to June. Native to forest openings from Montana through
Idaho to Washington, Oregon, and north into Alberta and British
Columbia. A long-lived choice for the low border. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
cyananthus - Small, but showy, bright blue flowers late
spring and early summer borne in dense clusters on erect stems
to 3 feet from a basal rosette. A mountain plant distributed from
Utah north to southern Idaho and adjacent Wyoming. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
cyaneus - A “stunning plant . . . equal to any
meconopsis” (Nold, 1999), with large, bright blue flowers
in late spring to summer borne on stems to 3 feet from a well-developed
basal mat. Native to sagebrush communities of eastern Idaho, southern
Montana, and northwestern
Wyoming. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
cyanocaulis - Beautiful, small, blue-violet flowers in
late-spring and summer on bluish tinged stems to 2 feet. A good
dry garden species from pinyon-juniper
woodlands of eastern Utah and western Colorado. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
davidsonii - Large, rose to lavender flowers rising a
few inches in summer from a dense, creeping woody mat with oval
evergreen leaves. Distributed from the central Sierra Nevada Mountains
of California and Nevada north through the Cascade Range to British
Columbia.
$5.00 |
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Penstemon
deustus - Small, whitish flowers in summer carried on
multiple stems to 18 inches with leathery leaves from a woody
base. Does best in poor, well-drained soils and among rocks. Highly
variable throughout its native range which extends from the central
Sierra Nevada mountains
of California and Nevada north through the Cascades to central
Washington and east to the Rocky Mountains. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
eatonii - Bright red flowers in spring on stems to 3
feet from a base of deep green leaves. Attractive to humans and
hummingbirds. Native from Utah and Arizona, west through the Mojave
Desert of southern Nevada and California, but widely introduced
in highway plantings as far north as Idaho. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
euglaucus - A personal favorite with blue-violet flowers
with pale throats in mid-summer on stems to 18 inches from a basal
rosette. Native to the eastern slope of the Cascade Range from
central Oregon into Washington. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
floridus - We use this as a specimen plant in our garden
where its rose pink flowers on stems to 5 feet attract comments
and hummingbirds alike. Its thick, blue-green toothed leaves remain
attractive year around. Endemic to the lower slopes eastern Sierra
Nevada of the Owens Valley area of California, and extending east
into adjacent Nevada. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
fruticosus - Beautiful lavender to purple flowers on
stems to 16 inches from a spreading plant with a woody base. A
common species among rocks in the mountains of eastern Oregon
and Washington to Montana and Wyoming and north into British Columbia
and Alberta. Dry gardens and rock gardens with room to spread.
$5.00 |
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Penstemon
glaber var. alpinus - Large, blue flowers in early to
mid-summer on stems to 18 inches. Native to the plains from eastern
Wyoming to central Colorado. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
globosus - Bright blue flowers in summer on stems to
24 inches. This meadows species from northeastern Oregon through
central Idaho to western Montana prefers more moisture than most.
$6.00 |
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Penstemon
griffinii - Slender, blue flowers in summer on stems
to 18 inches from a well-developed basal rosette. From pinyon-juniper
woodlands in the mountains of central Colorado to New Mexico.
$6.00 |
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Penstemon
hallii - An alpine species with large, violet to purple
bell-shaped flowers on stems to 6 inches from spreading mats.
Native to the high peaks of Colorado. Ideal in the rock garden.
$6.00 |
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Penstemon
laevis - Blue to purple, medium-sized flowers in May
and June on stems from 12 to 24 inches. Restricted in its native
range to the Colorado Plateau of southern Utah and adjacent Arizona.
$6.00 |
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Penstemon
mensarum - Deep blue flowers in late spring to summer
on stems to 2 feet with well-developed leaves at the base. Native
to the Grand Mesa of western Colorado. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
nitidus - Early spring blooms of the “most heavenly
shade of blue imaginable” (Bennett 1966 as cited by Nold
1999), on stems to 12 inches with blue-green leaves. Native of
the western plains from southern Canada through the Dakotas to
northern Wyoming. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
pratensis - White to pale-blue flowers on stems to 18
inches and light green leaves distinguish this wet meadow and
streamside species from the high sagebrush deserts of southeastern
Oregon and adjacent Idaho and Nevada. For a moist nook in a sunny
spot. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
procerus var. brachyantherus - Late spring into summer,
blue-purple flowers; this is a tall form of the highly variable
species, with stems to 16 inches. Unlike most of our penstemon
offerings, this species prefers some added moisture during the
growing season. This is the taller variety of the widel-ranging
species grown from seed colleced in the Siskiyou Mts of Oregon.
$5.00 |
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Penstemon
pseudospectabilis - Deep pink to magenta flowers in mid-spring
to summeratop 4-foot stems with large, fleshy, toothed evergreen
leaves that fuse toward the upper stem. From the deserts of California
through southern Nevada to Arizona and New Mexico, but cultivated
successfully in Virginia and Oregon (Lindgren and Wilde, 2003).
A choice specimen plant, for your dry garden as well as the hummingbirds.
$6.00 |
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Penstemon
roezlii - We use this species in the low border of a
dry bed where its clusters of sky blue flower bloom from late
spring through much of the summer. Grown fro seed collected in
the foothills of the eastern Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
spatulatus - Blue-purple flowers in summer on 10-inch
stems rising from a basal rosette of thick, spatulate leaves.
An excellent plant for the borders of rock beds where it forms
a mat spreading to about 15 inches. Endemic to the Wallowa Mountains
of northeast Oregon. It grows well in our garden and is said to
be “well-liked” in Scotland and England (Lindgren
and Wilde, 2003). $5.00 |
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Penstemon
subserratus - Blue flowers in late spring to summer on
3 foot tall stems with glabrous leaves. Native to dry woodlands
on the east side of the Cascade Range from northern Oregon to
central Washington. Partial shade. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
superbus - Coral to scarlet flowers in spring on stems
to 5 feet with thick, glaucous leaves. Its native range extends
from New Mexico and Arizona to northern Mexico, but it has been
grown successfully as far north as Washington and in Virginia.
A “treasure that should be tried by anyone from USDA Zone
5 1/2 or higher in sandy soil with good drainage and full sun”
(Lindgren and Wilde 2002). $6.00 |
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Penstemon
triphyllus - Lavender to blue-lavender flowers from late
spring to summer on an open spreading shrub to 20” and spreading
as wide. From basalt cliffs in the canyons of the Snake River
in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Can be cut-back in late summer
to maintain a more compact form. $5.00 |
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Penstemon
uintahensis - An alpine species endemic to the Uinta
Mountains of northeastern Utah, with beautiful blue flowers on
stems to about 6 inches that rise from a mat of basal leaves.
An outstanding plant for the rock garden or trough. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
venustus - Lavender to violet or dark-blue flowers in
late spring and summer on stems to 3 feet with smooth, lanceolate
leaves. Grows in clumps on dry hills and rocky cliffs in its native
range of eastern Oregon and Washington and adjacent Idaho. Partial
shade. A “first-rate species and should be more widely grown”
(Nold 1999). $6.00 |
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Penstemon
watsonii - Blue flowers in summer atop stems to 24 inches
with lanceolate leaves. Native to sagebrush habitats and pinyon-juniper
woodlands from northwestern Colorado, across Utah to Arizona and
Nevada, and north into Wyoming and Idaho. $6.00 |
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Penstemon
whippleanus - The flowers range from cream to to a dark
purple in this highly variable species. These were grown from
seed of uncertain parentage. One of the widest ranging species
with a native range in most of the mountains of the western United
States, except those in the states bordering the Pacific. $6.00 |
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Physaria
alpina - An alpine species with relatively large, yellow-orange
petals on stems to 3 inches. Endemic to the rocky tundra of the
peaks of the northeastern Gunnison Basin and Mosquito Range of
central Colorado. $6.00 |
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Physaria
chambersii - Abundant clusters of yellow flowers from
large basal rosettes with broad, grayish leaves that remain attractive
year around. The inflated papery fruits approach 1 inch in diameter
and have a convoluted surface. The native range of this species
is from the Wasatch Mountain of central Utah, west across the
Great Basin of Nevada to the base of the southern Sierra Nevada
and north into southeastern Oregon. Ours come from seed we collected
from plants growing on blocky limestone talus near Ely, Nevada.
$6.00 |
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Physaria
eburniflora - White or pale-yellow flowers on prostrate
stems up to 3 inches long rising from a basal tuft of rounded
silvery leaves. The fruits are inflated and less than 0.5 inch
wide. Endemic to wind-blasted cushion plant communities on calcareous
ridges and slopes and in thin soils among granite ourcrops the
high sagebrush plains of central Wyoming. $6.00 |
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Silene
acaulis var. longiscapa - This variant
of the species bears its flowers on longer scapes than the type
variety. A classic cushion plant from around the northern hemisphere.
Grown from seed collected in the Graian Alsp of France. $5.00 |
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Tonestus
lyallii (= Haplopappus lyallii) - Bright
yellow sunflower heads about one-inch across held on 6 inch scapes
above a woody subshrub spreading to about 18 inches. The leathery,
toothed, evergreen leaves have year-around appeal. For the dry
garden or rockery. $6.00 |
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Townsendia
condensata - A biennial or short-lived perennial with
heads on 1 inch stems bearing white to pink or violet ray flowers
arising from a basal rosette of short leaves with long, soft hairs.
This distinctive dwarf plant has a curious distribution with known
localities on scatterd high mountains in Utah, Wyoming, Montana,
Idaho, and the White and Sweetwater Mountains of eastern California.
$6.00 |
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Townsendia
parryi - An annual, biennnial, or short-lived perennial
with large, showy heads in summer on stems to 10 inches. The ray
flowers range from lavender to purplish to blue. Reseeds itself
in the dry garden. Widespread in open places at mid to high elevations
in the Rocky Mountains
from Wyoming to Alberta and Alberta, and isolated stations in
northeastern Oregon and Nevada, the White Mountains of California
and adjacent Nevada. $6.00 |
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Townsendia
scapigera - A dense, tufted species with spoon-shaped
basal leaves and heads on short stems with pink to lavender rays
in late spring. Grows on dry, rocky ridges and gravelly hillsides
in the mountains of Nevada, barely extending into Utah, Idaho,
Oregon, and California.
An excellent choice for the dry rock garden or trough. $6.00 |
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