Laporte Avenue Nursery Fort Collins Colorado Plants for Alpine and Rock Gardens

Over 350 Species of choice and unusual plants for rock and alpine gardens.

Alpine and Rock Garden Plants

 

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Name

Size

Description

Culture

Price

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Acantholimon acerosum

(Plumbaginaceae)

3” x 5”

Cushions of blue-gray linear leaves and dainty pink flowers in summer. Caucasus, W. Asia

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Aethionema armena

(Brassicaceae)

5” x 6”

Compact clumps of blue-green foliage with white-lavender flowers in spring. Turkey

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Aethionema grandiflora

10” x 14”

Distinctive fleshy blue-gray foliage accessorized with showy clusters of rosy-pink flowers in early summer. Russia, Iran

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$5.00

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Agave parryi

(Liliaceae)

18” x 18”

Striking rosettes of blue-green leaves. AZ, NM, TX

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$6.00

 

Allium cyaneum

(Alliaceae)

8” x 6”

Clusters of bright purple-blue flowers appear in August over neat tufts of fine grassy foliage. Native to the grasslands of western China.

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$6.00

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Allium geyeri

10” x 4”

This cute little alpine onion bears bright magenta umbels on short stems in late summer. Prefers moist conditions s. N. America

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$6.00

 

Allium togasii

10” x 5”

Heads of pretty soft lilac-mauve flowers are produced in mid-late summer over vigorous tufts of slender gray-green foliage. Japan

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$5.00

 

Aloinopsis spathulata

(Aizoaceae)

Hardy Living Stone

1” x 6”

Glistening magenta flowers are produced in spring over mats of spathulate, succulent leaves. A gem from S. Africa

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$6.00

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Alopecurus lanatus

(Poaceae)

5” x 10”

An attractive, clump-forming grass with tangled wooly-white foliage and fuzzy light brown foxtails in mid-late summer. Turkey

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$5.00

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Amsonia jonesii

(Apocynaceae)

6" x 18

Upright growth with long willowy leaves and long-lasting light blue funnel-shaped flowers in summer. CO, UT, AZ

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$5.00

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Amsonia tharpii

14” x 7”

The smallest form we offer displaying white open stars atop stems clothed with feathery crescent-shaped leaves. NM

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$5.00

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Androsace lanuginosa

(Primulacaea)

Wooly Rock Jasmine

4” x 16”

A fine alpine with soft silky-silvery stems that tumble delicately over rocks, ending with clusters of lilac-pink, golden-eyed flowers in late summer. Himalayas.

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$5.00

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Androsace minor

1” x 2”

Quaint pink flowers with an ochre yellow eye that turns bright red with age, over dark green diminutive rosettes in summer. China, in stony grasslands.

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$6.00

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Androsace pyrenaica

 

1” x 3”

Compact domes of tiny gray-green rosettes with adorable white stemless blooms in spring to early summer. Pyrenees

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$6.00

Anemone sarmentosa 'Chumbyi'

Androsace sarmentosa ‘Chumbyi’

Silky Rock Jasmine

5” x 18”

Loosely spreading, downy rosettes quickly form a low silky mat abundantly furnished with bright pink, yellow-eyed, sweetly fragrant flowers in early summer. A must have! Himalayas.   

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$5.00

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Androsace sarmentosa ‘Sheriffii’

5” x 24”

Large fragrant heads of dainty pink, yellow-eyed flowers in spring over tight rosettes lightly covered with silken hairs. Himalayas.  

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$5.00

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Androsace sempervivoides

Rosette Androsace

3” x 6”

Clusters of fragrant yellow-eyed, mauve-pink flowers over huddled mounds of tight dark green rosettes in early summer. Less sensitive to winter wet than other species. nw Himalayas.   

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$5.00

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Androsace x Millstream

 

1/2” x 3

Tight cushions of tiny glossy green rosettes studded in spring to early summer with sweet little pink, sometimes white,S flowers.

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$6.00

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Anemone drummondii

(Ranunculaceae)

1’ x 1’

Densely hairy finely cut leaves and stems topped by a single white buttercup-like flower in spring. nw North America, subalpine.

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$5.00

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Anemone multifida v. globosa

5” x 5”

A lovely native dwarf windflower with finely dissected leaves and dark raspberry-red, cup-shaped blooms in spring and intermittently throughout the season. CO, montane and subalpine

S-P-C

$5.00

 

Antennaria ‘McClintock’

(Asteraceae)

 1” x 12”

Recently introduced, this tidy compact silvery-furred pussytoes forms dense attractive mats and pearly white flowers. Great for use between paving stones. WY. 

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 $5.00

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Anthyrium niponicum ‘Pictum’

(Dryopteridaceae)

Japanese Painted Fern

2’ x 2’

Dramatic soft gray-green foliage with silvery- maroon markings.

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Aquilegia amaliae

(Ranunculaceae)

8” x 6”

Compact mounds of blue-green foliage carry nodding, pale violet-blue and white flowers with short strongly hooked spurs. Balkans.

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Aquilegia barnebyi

10” x 7”

A delightful native producing long-spurred flowers of butter-yellow petals and peachy-pink sepals over clumps of blue-green foliage. A delicate and demure effect for sure. CO, UT, on shale barrens.  

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Aquilegia cazorlensis

8” x 6”

Nodding, bright blue flowers above neat tufts of twice-divided foliage. Endemic to the Sierra de Cazorla region of Spain.

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Aquilegia chaplinii

10” x 5”

Delicate maidenhair-like blue foliage with soft yellow, long straight-spurred flowers. Resembles a dwarf form of A. chrysantha. TX, NM.  

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 $5.00

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Aquilegia coerulea

Rocky Mountain Columbine

8” x 12”

Our Colorado state flower, with large, blue and white, long-spurred blossoms and delicate blue-green foliage. Rocky Mts, in meadows and open forest, foothills to alpine. 

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Aquilegia desertorum

12” x 8”

A drylander with chrome-yellow and orange flowers produced in late spring to early summer over mounds of graceful blue-green foliage. AZ.

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Aquilegia flabellata ‘Blue Angel’

 8” x 6”

Compact mounds of blue-green waxy leaves are topped in early summer with plump violet-blue short-spurred flowers. 

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Aquilegia flabellata ‘Ministar’

6” x 6”

Pudgy blue and white nodding flowers are born in spring over dwarf mounds of thick blue-green foliage.

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$6.00

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Aquilegia flabellata ‘Nana’

 Dwarf Fanleaf Columbine

8” x 8”

A charming dwarf with waxy fan-shaped leaves and graceful pale blue and white flowers. A good rock garden species that tends to come true from seed. Japan.   $5.00

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$5.00

 

Aquilegia flabellata ‘Nana Alba’

8” x 8”

Same as above but with pretty white flowers.

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 Currently unavailable

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Aquilegia jonesii

Cushion Columbine

 3” x 3”

Aristocrat of the columbines! A dainty mound of elegant brilliant clear blue solitary flowers on tight lacy gray-green foliage. Best grown in a trough, difficult in the open garden. Bighorn Mts, WY.   

 S-P-T

$6.00

 

Aquilegia jonesii x saximontana

6” x 4”

 Compact tufts of blue-green foliage and large dazzling blue flowers in early summer. Easier than A. jonesii.

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Aquilegia pyrenaica

 8” x 6”

Compact mounds of finely divided foliage and lovely nodding bright lilac-blue flowers. Pyrenees.   

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Aquilegia saximontana

 8” x 6”

A choice dwarf from the Rocky Mts. carries petite, blue and white flowers nestled in delicate foliage in summer. CO, subalpine and alpine.  

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$5.00

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Aquilegia scopulorum

3” x 4”

A choice columbine with large genteel, blue and white, long-spurred flowers above delicate mounds of blue-green foliage. One of the best. WY, UT. 

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$5.00

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Aquilegia schockleyi

18” x 10”

Captivating flowers with red sepals, yellow petals and spurs fading to orangish above gray-green divided foliage. sw USA 

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Aquilegia triternata

18” x 12”

Sprays of pendant red and yellow lantern-shaped flowers always seem to entice the hummingbirds in spring-early summer. w N. America. 

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$5.00

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Aquilegia vulgaris    ‘Lime Frost’

12” x 8”

Clumps of lime-green mottled foliage and pretty deep blue flowers.

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Arabis androsacea

(Brassicaceae)

Rock Cress 

2” x 6”

Tight silvery mounds are slowly formed from rosettes of soft hairy leaves, sparkled in spring with clusters of sweet white flowers. A fine alpine from limestone screes in Turkey.  

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Arabis pumila

4” x 6”

Pretty white flowers in spring are presented over nice compact tufts of dark green shiney leaves. Alps.   

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Arenaria alfacarensis

(Caryophyllaceae)

Spanish Sandwort

1/2” x 6”

Tiny white flowers in summer on very tight hard mats of silver-green triangular foliage. A fine and rarely available alpine from Sierra Segure, Spain.

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$6.00

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Arenaria hookeri v. desertorum

Desert Sandwort

1/2” x 3”

Exceptionally tiny cushions with micro-fine needle-like foliage tightly hug the ground. The small white flowers in crowded stemless clusters cover the hard cushions in early summer. UT, in desert shrub.

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$5.00

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Arenaria obtusiloba

2” x 6”

This alpine sandwort forms mats of tight sharply-tipped needle-like leaves covered in summer with tiny white flowers on trailing stems. Grow lean to keep a tight form. nw N. America. 

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$5.00

 

Arenaria pseudoacantholimon

2” x 6”

Pretty white flowers appear in summer held on short stems above mounds of sharp blue-green pincushions. Looks and feels like acantholimon!

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Arenaria purpurascens

3” x 6”

A highly desirable species forming loose clumps of emerald-green rosettes and a cheerful mass of pink-purple blooms in summer. Pyrenees. 

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Arenaria tetraquetra

Spanish Sandwort

1/2” x 12”

Wonderful low congested mats of densely crowded minute leaves on four-angled stems are topped with bright sparks of tiny white flowers in summer. Spanish Sierras.

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$5.00

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Arenaria ‘Wallowa Mt’

2” x 12”

A remarkable Oregon native forming tight evergreen mats of rich emerald green foliage and tiny white flowers in summer.

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$5.00

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Artemisia assoana

(Asteraceae)

 Spanish Sage

 3” x 12”

Tight mats of silky silvery foliage invites touching and narrow panicles of nodding yellow-green spheres unfurl in summer. Spain to Ukraine.   

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$5.00

 

Aruncus aethusifolius

(Rosaceae)

Dwarf Goatsbeard

8” x 12”

Tidy, astilbe-like foliage and airy panicles of creamy-white flowers in summer. Korea and Japan.  

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$5.00

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Asarum europeum

 (Aristolochiaceae)

European Ginger

6” x 12”

Curiously beautiful, greenish purple flowers are produced in early spring cleverly hidden beneath handsome dark glossy green ginger-scented foliage. Europe.  

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$5.00

 

Asarum hartwegii

 6” x 10”

Mottled, deep olive-green, heart shaped leaves and large fragrant maroon flowers, white with red stripes inside. CA, in thickets and woods.

N-F-W

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Asclepias tuberosa

 (Asclepiadaceae)

18” x 12”

Umbels of warm orange flowers in late summer are sure to attract comments and butterflies. A nice companion plant for red & yellow kniphofias.   

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$5.00

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Aster alpinus

(Asteraceae)

3” x 4”

 A choice alpine species producing large lavender-pink daisies over rosettes of hairy foliage in early summer. Alps, Pyrenees. 

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$5.00

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Aster alpinus ‘Pinkie’

10” x 8”

Mounds of gray-green leaves and charming bright pink daisies with yellow centers will add pizzazz to your front border or rock garden in early summer.  

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$5.00

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Aster coloradoensis

3” x 6”

A treasure! Irresistible daisies of luminous pink tone are produced on low tufts of serrated gray-green foliage in summer. CO

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$5.00

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Aster himalaicus

(Asteraceae)

 6” x 8”

A lovely colonizing species with rich purple-blue rays around bright yellow disks in spring. Rewarding and easy. Himalayas. 

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Astragalus detritalis

(Fabaceae)

 5” x 6”

Fabulous racemes of magenta flowers over tufts of silver-gray foliage. Limited supply. UT.  

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Astragalus kentrophyta

Spinymat Milkvetch

1” x 8”

Tiny, rosy-purple pea flowers are snuggled in spiny mats of needle-like leaves in early summer. CO to NM and MT, on gravely slopes and in sagebrush. A favorite!

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Astragalus mollissimus v. thompsoniae

Woolly Locoweed

7” x 9”

Tufts of silver woolly leaves and long purple pea flowers.

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Astragalus newberryi

2” x 6”

Particularly striking silvery-white pinnate foliage heavily coated with a gray velvety pelt contrasted with large bright pink flowers most of the summer. Demands a hot dry well-drained site. w USA, in dry stony habitats. 

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Astragalus sericoleucus

 

1” x 8”

Mats of silky silver-green foliage and pretty pink-purple flowers. w USA

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Astragalus utahensis

2” x 6”

Dense mats of cottony, silver-blue leaves produce intense rosy-pink pea flowers throughout summer followed by cocoon-like seed pods covered in silky hairs. UT.   

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