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More Plants Suited to Rocky Garden Sites

Northeast

Diervilla lonicera (northern bush honeysuckle)
Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)

Southeast

Allium cernuum (nodding pink onion)
Anemonella thalictroides (rue anemone)
Delphinium alabamensis (Alabama larkspur)
Delphinium carolinianum (Carolina larkspur)
Diervilla sessilifolia (southern bush honeysuckle)
Dodecatheon meadia (shooting star)
Euphorbia corollata (flowering spurge, prairie baby’s breath)
Penstemon digitalis (foxglove beardtongue, white beardtongue)
Penstemon laevigatus (eastern smooth beardtongue)
Penstemon tenuiflorus (eastern whiteflower beardtongue)

Midwest

Allium cernuum (nodding pink onion)
Aquilegia canadensis (Canadian columbine, eastern red columbine)
Dodecatheon meadia (shooting star)
Euphorbia corollata (flowering spurge, prairie baby’s breath)
Mitella diphylla (two-leaf miterwort)

West

Blechnum spicant (deer fern)
Oenothera missouriensis ssp. incana (silver blade, evening primrose)
Phlox pilosa (downy phlox)
Phlox subulata (creeping phlox, moss pink)
Polystichum munitum (eastern sword fern)
Tolmeia menziesii (piggyback plant)

Southwest

Agave utahensis (century plant)
Dichelostemma pulchellum (wild hyacinth)
Ferocactus cylindraceus (compass barrel cactus)
Oenothera caespitosa (white evening primrose)
Oenothera texensis (Texas evening primrose)
Salvia chamaedryoides (blue sage, germander sage)

Karen Bussolini