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Sand
Bed Plant List:
Some good rock garden plants which we have growing in our sandbeds here in
southeastern Pennsylvania
are listed below. There are links to pictures of a few of the plants below.
- Acantholimon
acerosum, A. araxanum, A. glumaceum, A. ulicinum (syn A. androsaceum)
- Achillea
ex `King Edward'
- Aethionema oppositifolium (syn Eunomia oppositifolia)
- Alyssum caespitosum , A. propinquum - Nice tiny little species.
- Arabis
androsacea A. bryoides
- Arctostaphylos
uva-ursi
- Arenaria
hookeri, A.. saxosa (n.v., looks a lot like A.
montanum), A. pseudacantholimon (n.v.),
A. stellariana, A. tetraquetra, A. t. var granatensis
(scorches some in the summer)
- Armeria
juniperifolia (syn A. caespitosa), A.
girardii (syn A.setacea)
- Artemisia frigida
- Asperula
gussonii ( AGS Encyc. says it should have bluish foliage mine is
bright green do I have A. nitida? I do water this one occasionally I'm
not sure if it really needs it.)
- Bruckenthalia
spculifolia
- Calluna vulgaris
`Dainty Bess, C. v. `Minima C. v.`Mrs.
Ronald Gray
- Cheilanthes
fendleri, Cheilanthes xintertexta - (C. xintertexta is
probably misnamed)
- Coradina
verticillata
- Cowania mexicana
- Delosperma
aberdeenense, D, cooperi, D.macei (n.v.)
and D. nubigenum (sm. yellow flowers)
- Dianthus
freynii, D. petraeus ssp noeanus (syn D. noeanus), D. simulans
- Draba
cappadocica, D. densifolia, D. rigida imbricata (how do I tell this from
D bryoides?), D. rosularis
- Echinocerus triglochidiatus,
E. reichenbachii, E. viridiflorus
- Ephedra
frustillata, E. fedtschenkoi, E. minima, E. minuta, E. sinica
- Erigeron aureus, E. compositus, E.
elegantulus, E. scopulinus, E. simplex,
- Eriogonum caespitosum, E. douglassii,
E. ericifolium var pulchrum, E. jamesii, E. jamesii var flavescens, E.
kennedyi var austromontanum, E. kennedyi var alpigenum, (E. ovalifolium
v. nivale and E. o. v. purpureum have lived thriugh two years at most),
E. strictum var proliferum, E. umbellatum, E. umbellatum var porteri (see
the Eriogonum pages for pictures and info. about these great plants)
- Erysimum
kotschyanum
- Genista
`Vancouver Gold', G. sylvestris (syn G.
dalmatica)
- Globularia
cordifolia
- Gypsophila
aretioides (2 flowers in 1996), G. tenuifolia
- Helichrysum sp.
(hasn't bloomed yet may be H. splendidum)
- Hudsonia
ericoides (none lived more than 3 years, I will keep trying.)
- Ipheion
uniflorum
- Ipomopsis
aggregata (This seems to be monocarpic for me, I keep starting
seed from the seedexes.)
- Leptospermum
humifusum (a hardy Tasmanian!)
- Lesquerella alpinum, L. arizonica , L.
kingii
- Lewisia nevadensis , L.
pygmaea, L. rediviva
- Origanum
libanoticum
- Papaver julicum
(n.v.) nice white flowers, P. kluanense
(is this misnamed do I really have P. miyabeanum? I am
trying to find out.) Both these are growing in the damper lower end of
the 3rd sandbed. P, ruprifragum (maybe actually P.atlanticum,
10 - 12 inches ( 25 - 30 cm) tall with medium orange flowers.
- Paronychia
sessiliflora
- Penstemon
angustifolius, P. aridus, P. barbatus, P. barbatus (yellow form), P.
caespitosus, P. cardinalis, P.
caryi, P. davidsonii, P. eriantherus, P. fruticosus, P. hyb. (purple,
from P. barbatus + ?), P. laricifolius var laricifolius, P. laricifolius var exiliifolius, P. linarioides
v. coloradensis,P. jamesii, P. kunthii, P. neomexicana, P. palmeri, P. pinifolius, P. procerus v. tolemei,
P. secundiflorus, P. strictus, P. utahensis, P. virens
- Petrophytum
caespitosum, P. hendersonii
- Phlox
`Pink star', P. `Schneewitchen', P.
`Tamanongelei', P.diffusa, P.
hoodii, P. pulvinata, P. `Tiny Bugles'
- Physaria
alpestris
- Pinus sylvestris
`Hillside creeper'
- Pterocehpalus
pinardii
- Ptilotrichum
spinosum `Roseum'(syn Alyssum spinosum `Roseum')
- Rosularia
4 or 5 species
- Sempervivum many
varieties ( good for between rocks to hold back the sand in the terraces
of sloped sand beds)
- Teucrium marum
Thymus neiceffii, T.`Doretta Klaber'
- Townsendia
exscapa, T. incana, T. jonesii, T. parryi, T. rothrockii
- Veronica
bombycina var frederyana (var. n.v.), V. liwanensis, V.
oltensis
- Viola pedata v.concolor and v. bicolor
- Vitalliana
primuliflora (recovering from severe vole attack winter before
last)
- Yucca harrimanae
- Zauschneria
latifolia v. garrettii (Syn. Epilobium canum ssp.
latifolia v. garrettii) This is a nice plant that blooms in August -
September and it is a hummingbird pollinated plant. This plant is grown
from NARGS Seed. The seed was collected in
southwestern Wyoming
so this "California Fuschia" is quite hardy. This plant is the
best one of the 3 seedling I got from that batch of seed.
n.v.
= name not verified.
If you can supply any information on the validity of these names please
e-mail us at: mslater@voicenet.com
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