Plants flowering in the open rock garden.June '09

[Sinchets]

Yes, to me it looks like the unknown species I posted last week- but mine doesn't smell bad. Can you remember the source Anne? Flowering now:
Calylophus hartwegii var. fendleri- an evening flower and hard to photo again
Anthericum ramosum- grown from seed collected in the Big River Gorge a few years ago
Townsendia alpigena
Dianthus arpadianus var. pumilus (I think)

[Sinchets]

Also from today:
another annual for a dry area Eriastrum sapphirinum dasyanthum
a Campanula species listed as being found at Daxue Shan, China
and Scabiosa crinita from Turkey- the colour is more peachy in real life

[Lesley Cox]

Is the Calylophus close to Oenothera? Looks rather like one. and the Chinese campanula bears a suspicius resemblance to C. rotundifolia don't you think?

[Ragged Robin]

Townsendia alpigena
Dianthus arpadianus var. pumilus (I think)

Really cute.... I love the Townsendia, Simon and the hummock of Dianthus arpadianus

[Lori S.]

From the little I have read (spurred by receiving seeds of Calylophus serrulatus this winter), Calylophus do seem to be very close to Oenothera, though are purported to be more day-blooming than the usual "evening" primroses in Oenothera.  Also, I just ran across a site that said the stigma of Calylophus is club-shaped, while it is cross-shaped in Oenothera... ?

Penstemon azureus is one of those with entire, glaucous, glabrous leaves (and much reduced or absent basal leaves), so that suggests that Anne's plant, with its toothed, green leaves, is something else again...

[Sinchets]

Is the Calylophus close to Oenothera? Looks rather like one. and the Chinese campanula bears a suspicius resemblance to C. rotundifolia don't you think?

Yes, I think I have seen this species as Oenothera elsewhere- this one is quite shrubby though I don't know if that is the reason for a different genus.
The Campanula is I am guessing in the same section as C.rotundifolia- but the picture does not do justice to how delicate the colour is compared to European harebells. I'll try and find out more about it from the supplier.
Thanks Robin, the Townsendia is a little beauty.
Flowering now:
Brodiaea californica (we think)
Brodiaea coronaria macropodon

[David Nicholson]

Brodiaea californica looks spot on to me Simon but I don't know the other one.

[Sinchets]

Thanks, David. It was a nice surprise seeing it come up, as it was in a batch of unknown rescued bulbs.

[Zdenek]

Yes, to me it looks like the unknown species I posted last week- but mine doesn't smell bad. Can you remember the source Anne? Flowering now:
Calylophus hartwegii var. fendleri- an evening flower and hard to photo again
Anthericum ramosum- grown from seed collected in the Big River Gorge a few years ago
Townsendia alpigena
Dianthus arpadianus var. pumilus (I think)

Simon, your Townsendia is very nice, but it is not T. alpigena. It is probably T. incana.

[Sinchets]

Townsendia alpigena

Simon, your Townsendia is very nice, but it is not T. alpigena. It is probably T. incana.

Thanks, Zdenek 

Flowering today:
Nepeta tuberosa

[Sinchets]

Also flowering now:
Delphinium glareosum from AGS SeedExchange seed (I am not sure if this is true)
Gentiana cruciata
Dracocephalum grandiflorum (for a different source to my other plant, which flowered last month)

[Sinchets]

Several Symphyandra are flowering just now:
Symphyandra pendula
Symphyandra zanzegura (?)
and 2 paler flowered ones which could also be the same- although I have had seed of S.armena and S.ossetica in the past.

[Magnar]

More from the gravel bed:

Anemone trullifolia v linearis
Castilleja miniata
Centaurea pindicola
Oxalis enneaphylla
Coronilla minima
Ourisia poeppegii
Phlox diffusa v diffusa

[cohan]

always so many great plants in this thread--just from page 22:
maganar's Sax cherlerioides--wow!
simon's Eriastrum sapphirinum dasyanthum --i like the idea of nice little annuals..
Lori's Penstemon cyananthus..
etc

[cohan]

This is a very interesting thread to follow.. so many nice and interesting plants to see.. known and unknown.. Thanks everybody.
Saxifraga vandellii is flowering now,, after 4 years. The plant's actual size is about 1/4 of what is shown in the pic.

magnar, you show so many incredible saxifrage--i really love these tiny species, interesting in and out of flower!