Rock Garden Plants

Rock garden plants and alpine gardens especially in raised beds provide good drainage and make an ideal showcase for small plants and alpines.

The rock garden is a great alternative to the traditional borders you find in most gardens.

Skilled gardeners prefer to maintain the alpine plant's compact form, similar to their native habitat, such as mountaintops.

By doing this, the gardener will prevent the plant from stressing, especially if the environment is hot and humid.

Rock garden plants are quite beautiful and can become an excellent focal point in the garden.

These plants can also be planted in trough gardens and rock walls.

List of Outstanding Alpine and Rock Garden Plants

Note: * Indicates especially good in rock walls.

• Acorus species (Sweet Flag)
• Aethionema coridifolium
• Ajuga (Bugleweed)
• Alchemilla alpina*, saxatilis
• Allium*
• Alyssum*
• Amorpha nana (Fragrant False Indigo)
• Anacampseros*
• Anacyclus (Mt. Atlas Daisy)
• Anemone (Pulsatilla)
• Anemonella (Rue Anemone)
• Antennaria*
• Aquilegia species (Columbine)
• Arabis species* (Rock Cress)
• Arenaria* (Sandwort)
• Armeria (Thrift, Sea Pink)
• Artemisia species (Wormwood)
• Aruncus (Goatsbeard)
• Aster species
• Aubrieta species*
• Aurinia saxatilis* (Basket of Gold, Gold Dust)
• Bukniczia (Aeonopsis)
• Campanula species* (Bellflower)
• Centaurea species
• Cerastium species*
• Ceratostigma* (Plumbago, Leadwort)
• Chasmatophyllum (Hardy Tiger's Jaws)
• Chiastophyllum
• Coryphantha (Ball, Pincushion Cactus)Dalea species (Prairie Clover)
• Delosperma* (Hardy Ice Plant)
• Delphinium species
• Dianthus species*
• Digitalis species (Foxglove)
• Draba*
• Dracocephalum (Dragonhead)
• Drosanthemum*
• Edraianthus
• Ephedra (Joint Fir)
• Ericameria (Chrysothamnus)
• Erigeron species (Fleabane)
• Eriogonum* (Virginia Umbrella Plant)
• Erodium (Heron's Bill, Stork's Bill)
• Erythronium americanum (Dog-toothed Violet, Adder's Tongue)
• Euonymus species*
• Euphorbia species (Spurge)
• Galium species (Sweet Woodruff)
• Gaura (Apple Blossom Grass)
• Gazania
• Genista species (Broom, Woodwaxen)
• Gentiana (Gentian)
• Geum (Avens)
• Gilia
• Gillenia (Indian Physic, Bowman's Root)
• Gypsophila species (Baby's Breath)
• Helianthemum* (Sun or Rock Rose)
• Heuchera species* (Coral Bells, Alumroot)
• Hieracium (Hawkweed)
• Hymenoxys grandiflora (Old Man of the Mountain)
• Hypericum species (St. John's Wort)
• Iberis species (Candytuft)
• Inula ensifolia (Sunray Flower)
• Iris species (Flag, Fleur-De-Lis)
• Jovibarba
• Krascheninnikovia (Winter Fat)
• Leucanthemum species
• Lewisia (Bitter Root)
• Lilium species (Lily)
• Limonium species (Statice, Sea Lavender)
• Linum (Flax)
• Lychnis species ((Campion, Catchfly)
• Lysimachia species
• Marrubium rotundifolium* (Horehound)
• Mazus
• Oenothera species (Evening Primrose, Sundrops)
• Ophiopogon species (Lilyturf, Mondo Grass)
• Origanum species*
• Orostachys (Dunce Caps)
• Othonna (Little Pickles)
• Oxytropsis (Lambert's Locoweed)
• Penstemon species (Beardtongue, Firecracker)
• Persicaria species (Polygonum)
• Petrocoptis*
• Petrorhagia species*
• Philadelphus microphyllus (Littleleaf Mock Orange)
• Phlox stolonifera, subulata* (Creeping Phlox)
• Platycodon (Ballon Flower)
• Potentilla species (Cinquefoil, Five Finger)
• Pratia 'County Park'
• Primula (Primrose)
• Prunella (Self Heal)
• Ptilotrichum*
• Pulmonaria (Lungwort)
• Pulsatilla (Pasque Flower)
• Rhinephyllum
• Rhodiola
• Rosularia*
• Ruschia* (Shrub Ice Plant)
• Sagina (Pearlwort)
• Saponaria species (Soapwort)
• Satureja mont. Ssp
• Saxifraga*
• Scabiosa species (Pincushion Flower)
• Scutellaria (Skull Cap, Helmet Flower)
• Sedum species* (Stonecrop)
• Semiaquilegia*
• Sempervivella*
• Sempervivum* (Hen and Chicks)
• Sideritis
• Silene (Campion, Catchfly)
• Sinocrassula
• Solidago virg. Ssp minuta (Goldenrod)
• Stachys (Betony, Woundwort)
• Talinum species (Rock Rose)
• Tanacetum niveum (Costmary, Bible Leaf)
• Teucrium species (Germander)
• Thymus* (Thyme)
• Trollius species (Globeflower)
• Umbelicus rupestris
• Uvularia (Bellwort)
• Verbascum (Mullein)
• Veronica species (Speedwell)
• Viola (Violet)

Grasses

• Festuca (Fescue Grass)
• Poa (Blue Grass)