


Colorado Springs, Colorado ll 
HELENIUM. 
montannm. Large golden yellow daisies in loose clusters on 2 to 
3 ft. stems. Bright patches of color, July and August. 
HEUCHERA, Alumroot. 
hallii. Slender graceful stems of creamy white flowers, good clean 
foliage. Enjoys perpendicular toe-holds; shade among rocks, 
HYPERICUM, St. John’s Wort. 
formosum. Cymes of small waxy yellow to orange flowers; stamens 
in attractive clusters. 12 inches. Moist deep soil. Scarce. 
IPOMOEA leptophylla, Bush Morning Glory. Quantities of showy pink 
flowers, linear glabrous leaves. A slender wiry bush; enormous 
roots go 6 ft deep. Seed sometimes. 
IRIS. 
missouriensis, Wild Iris. Clear lavender-blue flowers, the character 
of Spanish Iris. Blooms earlier than intermediates. Enjoys moist 
meadows. 1 to 2 ft. 
missouriensis, Snowbird. Clean white flowers of good substance. 
Seed sometimes available. 
KINNIKINNIK, see Arctostaphylos uva ursi, page 20. 
LAVAUXIA flava. A flat-growing Oenothera with clear yellow flowers 
and the best behaved foliage of the family. Moist soil. 
LESQUERELLA, Bladderpod. 
condensata. Rosettes of thickish gray leaves encircled by pale yellow 
flowers. 4 inches. Inflated papery pods of irridescent pink. 
Makes lovely silver saucers on gravel slopes. Subalpine. 
stenophylla. A coarser one. Flourishes on dry mesas. 
LEUCOCRINUM, Sand Lily. 
montanum. Exotically fragrant white stars guarded by glaucous 
lances. A shining, lovely spring harbinger. LHasily grown in 
dry sandy.soil; 4 inches. See page 22. 
LEWISIA, Bitterroot. Moist soil. 
pygmaea. A very tiny neat one. Coy pink flowers. Alpine. 
rediviva. Waxy geranium-pink blossoms among rosettes of succulent 
leaves which disappear after blooming season. 
LIATRIS, Blazing Star. 
punctata. Brilliant magenta spikes, linear leaves. In seed a feathery 
plume. Dry sandy soil. 1 ft. 
LINARIA, Butter and Eggs. Sun. 
vulgaris. Like a miniature snapdragon ; clear yellow (really not 
vulgar). Good for naturalizing. 
LITHOSPERMUM, Puccoon. Dry sandy soil. 
angustifolium. Attractive little yellow polyantha flowers, thin hairy 
leaves. Blooms early. 8 to 12 inches. 
multiflorum. Flowers smaller, deeper yellow. Blooms a little later. 
LLOYDIA serotina, Alpine Lily. Relatively large creamy white flowers 
touched with pinky purple. Alpine. 2 to 6 inches. 
LOCO, see Aragallus, page 4. 
LUPINUS. 
alpestris, Mountain Lupine. Dignified spikes of blue-purple above 
soft green palmate foliage. Seed only. 
argenteum. Silvery foliage, blue flowers, bushy habit. 


Iris missouriensis for lovely masses in the small garden. 
