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Rock Garden plants
as suggested by Wes Brittenham and others
Hundreds of species of plants can be found around the world that are suitable for growing in rock gardens. There are many of these that are native to our climate. Dry. rocky fast draining slopes that have the alkaline soil of the Rocky mountains supply many of these species. See this list Natives for Ground Covers also Native wildflowers.
For many of these species go to
Click here: High Country Gardens - Product Display
The first link at the bottom of this page will have pictures of the
starred genera and/or species. The second link is here to help you with
researching the various species. Click on the small pictures to view a full size
picture. Most of these pictures are taken of some of my own plants in my garden.
*Acantholimon (Hoenecker & Litwinovi)
Achillea agebatifolia (greek yarrow)
*Aethionoma schistosumi (Persian rock cress, others)
Agastache (Neo Mexicana, cana, rupestris)
*Anacyclus Depressus (mat daisy)
Aniscanthus Thurberii (desert honeysuckle)
*Antennaria parvifolia (pussy toes)
Aptenia annual (Baby sunrose) reseeds
Arabis (rockcress)
Armeria Maritime (sea thrift)
*Iberis pruitii (perennial lavendar candytuft)
*Delosperma (Ice plants -yellow, purple, others)
Echinocereus (claret cup) Hedgehog cactus
and others
Euphorbia myrsinites
Escobaria (cactus)
photo from High Country Gardens web site
Festuca Glauca (blue Fescue grass)
Gaura coccinea/neomexicana
*Gypsophila repens (creeping baby's breath) pink and white
Helianthemum nummulariums (sun rose)
*Lavandula angustifolia "nana" (dwarf lavemder)
Lavandula stoechas (spanish lavender)
*Lychnis alpina (rose campion)
Papaver sp. (California Poppy, Iceland poppy, horned, prickly)
Penstemon ambigua
Penstemon barbatus (scarlet bugler)
Penstemon linaroides (mat penstemon)
Penstemon Jamesii (James P.)
*Penstemon Pinnafolia (Pineleaf P.)
Penstemon superbus (superb Pl)
*Pulsatilla vulgaris (pasque flower)
Ruschia Pulvinaris (shrubby iceplant, creeping s.i.p.)
*Sapponaria (soapwort)
*Scutellaria resimosa (skullcap)
*Sedums (stonecrops) many varieties including S. reflexum shown here
Sempervivums (Hen & Chicks)
*Talinum caliycinum, (flame flower)
*Teucrium (creeping, Greek germander)
*Verbena bipinnatifida (dakota verbena)
Veronicas (pectinata/wooley, lewanensis/turkish) Speedwell, xblue
reflections/blue reflections
*Zinnia grandiflora (prairie zinnia, desert zinnia
Special thanks to Ellen Reed for assistance in researching the additional materials on this page.
02/01/2009