NINE 
NATIVE CALIFORNIA ROCK PLANTS 
WHICH SHOULD BE 
BETTER KNOWN 
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Aquilegia pubescens —Equals Aquilegia alpina in beauty. Remarkable for its 
striking color range through cream, pink, red and purple. 
Arabis blepharophylla —An early-blooming rose-pink arabis. One of California’s 
best native rock plants. 
Epilobium obcordatum —Beautiful creeping plant for the rock wall with es- 
pecially neat foliage and large striking rose-pink convolvulus-like flowers. 
Eriogonum ochracephalum —One of the best of the delightful and little known 
dwarfs of this genus. Silver foliage and yellow flowers. 
Gentiana calycosa—A surpassingly beautiful gentian. Neat compact plants 
bearing large brilliant velvety-blue trumpets. 
G. newberryi—A creeping gentian lifting, in grassy alpine places, large blue 
bells dotted with jade-green. 
Gilia nuttallii —A tidy low mound covered with fragrant phlox-like white 
flowers. 
Kalmia polifolia var. microphylla —A wee evergreen shrub which, when happy, 
forms a ground-cover profusely adorned with large pink flowers. Damp¬ 
ness and good drainage are essential to its well-being. 
Pentstemon menziesii var. davidsonii —One of the best rock garden pent- 
stemons. Grows flat in granite crevices and spreads its large purple-blue 
flowers horizontally. 
