Rock Garden Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In West Covina

* Something like a 6" wide daisy, with this difference: it is stemless, growing prostrate on the ground; blooms in May or June; coarse, deeply lobed leaves; likes a scree soil; a rock garden plant or curiosity native to the Mediterranean.

* Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado. * Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona .

The flowers are bright yellow 3.5-5 cm across, starting out bowl-shaped, then flattening out with age. * This poppy is a perennial that spreads via rhizomes, typically no taller than 30 cm.

Ageratum mexicanum Hort. * Ageratum houstonianum ( Flossflower , Bluemink , Garden Ageratum , Blueweed , Pussy Foot ) syn. ) is a cool-season annual plant often grown as a bedding plant in gardens .

* Something like a 6" wide daisy, with this difference: it is stemless, growing prostrate on the ground; blooms in May or June; coarse, deeply lobed leaves; likes a scree soil; a rock garden plant or curiosity native to the Mediterranean.

It is generally distinguished from other species of its genus by "tomentose" or felty foliage. * Cerastium tomentosum (Snow-in-Summer) is a herbaceous flowering plant and a member of the carnation family.

* Rhizome thick, branched. P - by division and by seed. Flowers large, brown-yellow with violet veins. Plant to 20-30 cm. Flowering stem bears 2-4 leaves and 2 flowers. V - from early spring to late autumn.

(Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China. * Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m.

* It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing twenty-three to twenty-seven inches (60–70 cm) tall, with biternate, glaucous leaves with obovate lobes. * In 2002, the Chinese botanist Hong Deyuan reduced it to a subspecies of Paeonia daurica, namely Paeonia...

* The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt to find new, improved varieties. * The species is commonly cultivated in temperate areas.

* It is a popular garden plant both for its flowers and for its fragrance. * A good border plant with white or pinkish flowers on a vertical stalk; a long-lived plant, makes a substantial clump in the garden.

The above ground shoots rise from slender creeping rhizomes that are placed 2.5–7.5 cm deep in the soil, and form clonal colonies under trees. * Cornus canadensis is a slow growing perennial herbaceous subshrub growing 10–20 cm tall, forming a carpet-like...

It is widespread and common in the more southerly mountain ranges of Europe, but is rarer in the north. * Centaurea montana ( Perennial Cornflower, Mountain Cornflower, Bachelor's Button, Montane Knapweed or Mountain Bluet ) is a species of Centaurea...

It is native to interior western North America , in the U.S. states of Arizona , California , Colorado , Nevada , New Mexico , Utah , and Wyoming , growing in mountains at 1600–3000 m altitude.

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

The young leaves and flowers can be eaten raw, boiled, pickled or used in sandwiches. White to lilac-blue flowers in early to mid-summer. The leaves are oblong, ranging in size up to 2.5 in (6.4 cm) long by 1 in (2.5 cm) wide.

* Yellow Corydalis is hardy to –34°C (-30°F; hardiness zone 4). Corydalis lutea; Yellow Corydalis) is a short-lived perennial plant native to the southern foothills of the south-western and central Alps of Italy and Switzerland, but widely introduced...

* Many 3" nodding blue, red, purple, or white nodding flowers on a branching stem; forms basal rosette of 20" leaves; monocarpic--blooms and dies; native to eastern Himalayas, western China.

Temperatures of 20–30 °C (68–86 °F) are best for adequate growth; an atmospheric humidity of 80 to 85% and soil without a high level of nitrogen are also optimal. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants...

* Paeonia lactiflora , also Chinese Peony ( ? * The flower buds are large and round, opening into large flowers 8-16 cm diameter, with 5-10 white, pink, or crimson petals and yellow stamens .

* Although no specific mention of medicinal uses has been seen for this species, members of this genus are in general very healthy additions to the diet. * It produces up to 30 pink flowers in characteristic allium umbels in the mid to late summer and...

* The Iceland Poppy ( Papaver nudicaule syn. All parts of this plant are likely to be poisonous , containing (like all poppies) toxic alkaloids . Macounii ) is a boreal flowering plant.

It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions – growing to 60 centimetres (24 in) (less in poor soils), and producing pale lilac and white flowers in spring. * Iris magnifica is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Iris, native to the...

China, Korea, Mongolia. 1:17:1923, Stewart, Ann. In Bhutan and Tibet, the tetraploid cytotype seems to r eplace the diploid one as described here. There is no difference whatsoever between the European and the Himalayan collections, wh ile plants from...

* The seed is best sown as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame. * Spotting on the flowers gives rise to the additional common name of leopard lily. ) Kuntze , Iris chinensis Curtis , Ixia chinensis L.

* Blue-purple flowers in a mass at the top of the stalks in June and July and perhaps again in late summer; likes sun, grows quickly in good soil, propagating by runners * The seed usually germinates in 2 - 4 weeks at 18°c.

It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions – growing to 60 centimetres (24 in) (less in poor soils), and producing pale lilac flowers in spring. * Iris magnifica is a bulbous flowering plant in the genus Iris, native to the mountains...